GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    1535%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 980 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1435% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameG92 (G92-420-A2)vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders128vs2816
Compute Units8vs22
Core clock675 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs96
TMUs64vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP140 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date28 Mar 2008vs2 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    1600
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    24560

Points (higher is better)