GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce 9800 GX2
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    233%
  • GeForce GT 710
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GX2

Around 133% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 710

178 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GX2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GX2

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GX2

The GeForce 9800 GX2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GX2GeForce GT 710
GPU NameG92 (G92-450-A2)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors754 millionvsunknown
Shaders128vs192
Compute Units8vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs64vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GX2GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bit x2vs64 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GX2GeForce GT 710
TDP197 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date18 Mar 2008vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    76.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    2590
  • GeForce GT 710
    1110

Points (higher is better)