GeForce 9800 GTX+ and Whistler - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX+

Whistler

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G92B

Whistler

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2009

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

738 MHz

-

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

470.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

480

Power consumption (TDP)

141 Watt

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Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

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Texture fill rate

47.2 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

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Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A