NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 141W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +288%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

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GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G92B

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

G92-420-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

Board Design

90W

TDP

141W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

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