GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GTX 465

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GTX 465
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 May 2010
GeForce GTX 465

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 465
    284%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 465 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 465

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 184% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 465

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 465

The GeForce GTX 465 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 465
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGF100 (GF100-030-A3)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs529 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs3,100 million
Shaders112vs352
Compute Units7vs11
Core clock600 MHzvs608 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs56vs44

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 465
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs802 MHz
3208 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 465
TDP125 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs31 May 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 465
    13.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 465
    26.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 465
    103.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 465
    855.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310
  • GeForce GTX 465
    3730

Points (higher is better)