NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 150 Watt
2.5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 600 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 / 65 nm vs 65 nm

Manufacturing process technology	55 / 65 nm vs 65 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS SLI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	G9x
Code name	G92	NB9E-GT
Launch date	21 July 2008	15 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$160
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 / 65 nm
Pipelines	128	128
Texture fill rate	46.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	1508 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	10
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PureVideo HD
SLI