GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce 9800 GTX+

GeForce GTX 280
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce 9800 GTX+
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jan 2009
GeForce 9800 GTX+
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 280
    172%
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 280

Around 72% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GTX+

95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 280 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 280

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 280

The GeForce GTX 280 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 280GeForce 9800 GTX+
GPU NameGT200 (G200-302-A2)vsG92B (G92-420-B1)
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs754 million
Shaders240vs128
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock602 MHzvs738 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 280GeForce 9800 GTX+
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width512 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1107 MHz
2214 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 280GeForce 9800 GTX+
TDP236 wattsvs141 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs16 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    19.30 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    11.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 280
    48.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    47.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 280
    142.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 280
    622.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 280
    2780
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    1610

Points (higher is better)