GeForce 940A vs GeForce 9800 GX2
Summary
GeForce 940A
100%
GeForce 9800 GX2
105%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce 940A |
| 164 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GX2 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GX2 |
| Around 5% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GX2
The GeForce 9800 GX2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) | vs | G92 (G92-450-A2) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 128 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 1029 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 197 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 18 Mar 2008 |
GeForce 940A
8.23 GP/s
GeForce 9800 GX2
19.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.46 GT/s
GeForce 9800 GX2
76.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.02 GB/s
GeForce 9800 GX2
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940A
790.30 GFLOPs
GeForce 9800 GX2
768.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce 940A
2450
GeForce 9800 GX2
2590
Points (higher is better)