GeForce GTX 950 LP vs GeForce 9800 GTX+

GeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 LP
GeForce 9800 GTX+
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jan 2009
GeForce 9800 GTX+
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    527%
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

66 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX+ .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 427% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX+

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950 LP

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 LP

The GeForce GTX 950 LP is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce 9800 GTX+
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-251-A1)vsG92B (G92-420-B1)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs754 million
Shaders768vs128
Compute Units6vs8
Core clock1024 MHzvs738 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce 9800 GTX+
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 LPGeForce 9800 GTX+
TDP75 wattsvs141 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs16 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    32.80 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    11.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    49.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    47.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    105.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    8490
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    1610

Points (higher is better)