GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce 8800 Ultra - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce 8800 Ultra
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
GeForce 8800 Ultra
661
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 8800 Ultra
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G92
G80
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
600 MHz
612 MHz
CUDA cores
256 (128 per GPU)
612
Floating-point performance
2x 384.0 gflops
387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
128
Power consumption (TDP)
197 Watt
171 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
76.8 billion/sec
39.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128 (64 per GPU)
103.7 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
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A