GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

GeForce 9800 GT Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP Release date: 21 Jul 2008

GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8 Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP Release date: 29 May 2013

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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

100 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.

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.

Supports PhysX

Supports G-Sync

Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

Based on theoretical specifications.

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce 9800 GT		GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
GPU Name	G92 (G92-270-A2)	vs	GK208 (GK208-301-A1)
Fab Process	65 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	324 mmÂ²	vs	87 mmÂ²
Transistors	754 million	vs	unknown
Shaders	112	vs	384
Compute Units	7	vs	2
Core clock	600 MHz	vs	902 MHz
ROPs	16	vs	8
TMUs	56	vs	16

Memory Configuration

	GeForce 9800 GT		GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
Memory Type	GDDR3	vs	DDR3
Bus Width	256 bit	vs	64 bit
Memory Speed	900 MHz 1800 MHz effective	vs	900 MHz 1800 MHz effective
Memory Size	512 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce 9800 GT		GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
TDP	125 watts	vs	25 watts
Release Date	21 Jul 2008	vs	29 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce 9800 GT
9.60 GP/s
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce 9800 GT
33.60 GT/s
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce 9800 GT
57.60 GB/s
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce 9800 GT
336.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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