GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce 9800 GX2
Summary
GeForce GTX 1060
671%
GeForce 9800 GX2
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 |
| 77 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. |
| Around 571% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060
The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP106 (GP106-400-A1) | vs | G92 (G92-450-A2) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,400 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 128 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 9800 GX2 | |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 197 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Jul 2016 | vs | 18 Mar 2008 |
GeForce GTX 1060
72.30 GP/s
GeForce 9800 GX2
19.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060
120.50 GT/s
GeForce 9800 GX2
76.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060
192.20 GB/s
GeForce 9800 GX2
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060
3855.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 9800 GX2
768.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1060
17380
GeForce 9800 GX2
2590
Points (higher is better)