NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 6.1x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 140 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Launch date 10 January 2010 vs 28 March 2008
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 140 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

  • Around 71% higher core clock speed: 1688 MHz vs 990 MHz
  • 6x more texture fill rate: 43.2 billion / sec vs 7.2 GTexel / s
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 128 vs 48
  • 4.5x better floating-point performance: 432.1 gflops vs 95.04 gflops
  • 4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 769 vs 170
  • 7.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 366 vs 49
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1688 MHz vs 990 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.2 billion / sec vs 7.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 128 vs 48
Floating-point performance 432.1 gflops vs 95.04 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 769 vs 170
PassMark - G2D Mark 366 vs 49

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
170
769
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
49
366
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 170 769
PassMark - G2D Mark 49 366
Geekbench - OpenCL 5606
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2145
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2145

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Code name GT216 G92
Launch date 10 January 2010 28 March 2008
Place in performance rating 1547 438
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $299

Technical info

Core clock speed 990 MHz 1688 MHz
CUDA cores 48 128
Floating-point performance 95.04 gflops 432.1 gflops
Gigaflops 142
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 48 128
Texture fill rate 7.2 GTexel / s 43.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 140 Watt
Transistor count 486 million 754 million
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Dual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMIVGASingle 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 PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
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

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
SLI
3D Vision