GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce 9800 GTX+

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GTX uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 675 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1100 MHz on this particular card. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce 9800 GTX+, which has GPU clock speed of 738 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM set to run at 1100 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 128 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 9800 GTX	GeForce 9800 GTX+
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	April 2008	July 2008
Code Name	G92	G92b
Fab Process	65 nm	55 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16 2.0
Memory	512 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	675 MHz	738 MHz
Shader Speed	1688 MHz	1836 MHz
Memory Speed	1100 MHz	1100 MHz
Unified Shaders	128	128
Texture Mapping Units	64	64
Render Output Units	16	16
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 10
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 3.0
Power (Max TDP)	140 watts	145 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
Bandwidth	70400 MB/sec	70400 MB/sec
Texel Rate	43200 Mtexels/sec	47232 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10800 Mpixels/sec	11808 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.