GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    670%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 570% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders112vs1344
Compute Units7vs7
Core clock600 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs56vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce GTX 660 Ti
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 Ti
TDP125 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    8790

Points (higher is better)