GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    519%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 660

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 419% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 660
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders112vs960
Compute Units7vs5
Core clock600 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs56vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 660
TDP125 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310
  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800

Points (higher is better)