GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce 9500 GT

GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9500 GT

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce 9800 GTX

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GTX

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce 9500 GT
GPU NameG92 (G92-420-A2)vsG96C ()
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs314 million
Shaders128vs32
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock675 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce 9500 GT
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce 9500 GT
TDP140 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date28 Mar 2008vs29 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better