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).

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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

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	1327	1329
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