GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce GTX 760

GeForce 9800 GX2
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    332%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GX2

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 760

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 232% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

The GeForce GTX 760 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GX2GeForce GTX 760
GPU NameG92 (G92-450-A2)vsGK104 (GK104-225-A2)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders128vs1152
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock600 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GX2GeForce GTX 760
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GX2GeForce GTX 760
TDP197 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date18 Mar 2008vs25 Jun 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    76.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    2590
  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600

Points (higher is better)