GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    291%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 191% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560 Ti

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameG92 (G92-420-A2)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders128vs384
Compute Units8vs8
Core clock675 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP140 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date28 Mar 2008vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    1600
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660

Points (higher is better)