GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce GTX 260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce GTX 260
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
GeForce GTX 260
1260
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce GTX 260
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G92
GT200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
600 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
256 (128 per GPU)
192
Floating-point performance
2x 384.0 gflops
476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
192
Power consumption (TDP)
197 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
76.8 billion/sec
36.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
999 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128 (64 per GPU)
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVI
Dual Link DVIHDTV
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