NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 10.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 141 Watt
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 83
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 January 2010 vs 16 January 2009
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 141 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 vs 83

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 1836 MHz vs 1150 MHz
  • 11.2x more texture fill rate: 47.2 billion / sec vs 4.2 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 128 vs 16
  • 12.8x better floating-point performance: 470.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
  • 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 494 vs 151
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1836 MHz vs 1150 MHz
Texture fill rate 47.2 billion / sec vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 128 vs 16
Floating-point performance 470.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 494 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
151
494
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
149
83
Name NVIDIA GeForce 305M NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
PassMark - G3D Mark 151 494
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 83
Geekbench - OpenCL 1987
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 54.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 15.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 108.412
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3309

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 305M NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Code name GT218 G92B
Launch date 10 January 2010 16 January 2009
Place in performance rating 1326 1328
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $229

Technical info

Core clock speed 1150 MHz 1836 MHz
CUDA cores 16 128
Floating-point performance 36.8 gflops 470.0 gflops
Gigaflops 55
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 16 128
Texture fill rate 4.2 GTexel / s 47.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 141 Watt
Transistor count 260 million 754 million
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536 2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 2.1 2.1

Memory

Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
3D Vision
SLI