NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
656 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
+444%
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GT
0.336 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
14
768
Shading Units
112
48
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
125W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
G92B
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
G92-280-B1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
260 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
