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GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB features a clock frequency of 600 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It is made up of 112 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 105 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (62%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 70656 (123%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is much (approximately 57%) better at AF than the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 19008 (57%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16704 (174%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9800 GT 1GB GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2008 January 2011
Code Name G92a/b GF114
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 822 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 170 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 128256 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 52608 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 26304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 384
Texture Mapping Units 56 64
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GT 1GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

3 Responses to “GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti”
Todd Bailey says:

The only thing missing here is replacing 2 older cards in sli or cross fire with a single newer card, in my case a pair of 9800 gt with a single ?. I'm guessing a 33% improvement over a single 9800 gt but would like to have numbers to support my claim..

Anonymous says:

Cool story brah

МАКС says:

ага сравнили палец с задом! конечно GTX 560 рвет 9800 GT

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