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    GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce 9800 GTX

    GeForce GTX 1060
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 10 Jul 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060
    GeForce 9800 GTX
    Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
    Release date: 28 Mar 2008
    GeForce 9800 GTX

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      1086%
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 986% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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
    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 GTX
    GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsG92 (G92-420-A2)
    Fab Process16 nmvs65 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs324 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvs754 million
    Shaders1280vs128
    Compute Units10vs8
    Core clock1506 MHzvs675 MHz
    ROPs48vs16
    TMUs80vs64

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060GeForce 9800 GTX
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
    Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1100 MHz
    2200 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs512 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060GeForce 9800 GTX
    TDP120 wattsvs140 watts
    Release Date10 Jul 2016vs28 Mar 2008

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      72.30 GP/s
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      10.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

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

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      192.20 GB/s
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      70.40 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      3855.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      432.10 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1060
      17380
    • GeForce 9800 GTX
      1600

    Points (higher is better)

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