GeForce 9800 GTX and GeForce 7800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce 7800 GTX
GeForce 9800 GTX
792
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 7800 GTX
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G92
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
June 2005
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
430 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
432.1 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
-
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
86 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
43.2 billion/sec
10.32
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
Via Adapter
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A