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GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce GTX 860M

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GTX makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 675 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1100 MHz on this particular model. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 860M, which has a clock speed of 797 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M 45 Watts
GeForce 9800 GTX 140 Watts
Difference: 95 Watts (211%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 9800 GTX is 10% faster than the GeForce GTX 860M overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX 70400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M should be quite a bit (more or less 77%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9800 GTX. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M 76512 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX 43200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 33312 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 860M is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M 12752 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX 10800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1952 (18%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9800 GTX GeForce GTX 860M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2008 March 12 2014
Code Name G92 GM107
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 797 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 45 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43200 Mtexels/sec 76512 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10800 Mpixels/sec 12752 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 1152
Texture Mapping Units 64 96
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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