GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce 9500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
GeForce 9500 GT
162
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9500 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G92
G96
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
600 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
256 (128 per GPU)
32
Floating-point performance
2x 384.0 gflops
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
32
Power consumption (TDP)
197 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
76.8 billion/sec
8.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory bandwidth
128 (64 per GPU)
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVI
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A