GeForce 7950 GX2 and GeForce 9800S - video card comparison

GeForce 7950 GX2

GeForce 9800S

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

G71

G94

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2006

July 2008

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

-

SLI options

-

+

Core clock speed

500 MHz

600 MHz

CUDA cores

-

64

Floating-point performance

-

192 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

505 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

64

Power consumption (TDP)

110 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.00

19.2 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

51.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

VGAHDMISingle Link DVI

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF + HDA

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

2.1

Shader Model

3.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A