GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GT 610

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    242%
  • GeForce GT 610
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Around 142% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

96 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 9800 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GT

The GeForce 9800 GT is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 610
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs292 million
Shaders112vs48
Compute Units7vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 610
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GT 610
TDP125 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs2 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310
  • GeForce GT 610
    540

Points (higher is better)