GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce 8800 GTS 512 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce 8800 GTS 512
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
585
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G92
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
December 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
256 (128 per GPU)
-
Floating-point performance
2x 384.0 gflops
416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
128
Power consumption (TDP)
197 Watt
135 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
76.8 billion/sec
41.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1640 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128 (64 per GPU)
52.48 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A