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    GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce 9800 GTX

    GeForce GTX 1080
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
    Release date: 27 May 2016
    GeForce GTX 1080
    GeForce 9800 GTX
    Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
    Release date: 28 Mar 2008
    GeForce 9800 GTX

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1080
      1885%
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 1785% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

    40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1080 .
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor
    GeForce GTX 1080

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080

    The GeForce GTX 1080 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080GeForce 9800 GTX
    GPU NameGP104 (GP104-400-A1)vsG92 (G92-420-A2)
    Fab Process16 nmvs65 nm
    Die Size314 mm²vs324 mm²
    Transistors7,200 millionvs754 million
    Shaders2560vs128
    Compute Units20vs8
    Core clock1607 MHzvs675 MHz
    ROPs64vs16
    TMUs160vs64

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080GeForce 9800 GTX
    Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR3
    Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1251 MHz
    10008 MHz effective    		vs1100 MHz
    2200 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs512 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1080GeForce 9800 GTX
    TDP180 wattsvs140 watts
    Release Date27 May 2016vs28 Mar 2008

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080
      102.80 GP/s
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      10.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080
      257.10 GT/s
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      43.20 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1080
      320.00 GB/s
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      70.40 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1080
      8228.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      432.10 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1080
      30160
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      1600

    Points (higher is better)

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