GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce 9800 GT

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    1326%
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1226% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce 9800 GT
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsG92 (G92-270-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs65 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs754 million
Shaders1280vs112
Compute Units10vs7
Core clock1506 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce 9800 GT
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce 9800 GT
TDP120 wattsvs125 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs21 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310

Points (higher is better)