GeForce GTX 295 and GeForce 9800M GTX SLI - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 295

GeForce 9800M GTX SLI

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

G9x (2007−2010)

GPU code name

GT200B

NB9E-GTX

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2009

July 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

-

SLI options

+

+

Core clock speed

576 MHz

500 MHz

CUDA cores

480

-

CUDA cores per GPU

240

-

Floating-point performance

2x 596.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

3016 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

224

Power consumption (TDP)

289 Watt

150 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

92.2 billion/sec

-

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1792 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

896 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

223.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Standard memory config per GPU

896 MB

-

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVIHDMI

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10

CUDA

+

+

OpenCL

1.1

-

OpenGL

2.1

-

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

-

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

128bit

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