NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 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 - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 30% better floating-point performance: 311.04 gflops vs 240 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB vs 512 MB
2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 775 vs 381
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 232 vs 81
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3275 vs 3237
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3275 vs 3237

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2011 vs 29 July 2008
Core clock speed	1620 MHz vs 500 MHz
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops vs 240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	775 vs 381
PassMark - G2D Mark	232 vs 81
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3275 vs 3237
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3275 vs 3237

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Around 85% higher texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec

Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

775

381

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3275

3237

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3275

3237

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	775	381
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	81
Geekbench - OpenCL	2625
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	171.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.65
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	19.871
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3275	3237
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3275	3237

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G92
Launch date	1 February 2011	29 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1342	1345
Price now	$69.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	14.03
Technical info
Core clock speed	1620 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	96	96
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	98 °C
Pipelines	96	96
Texture fill rate	13.0 billion / sec	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	754 million
Gigaflops		360
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, HDMIVGADual Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.2	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU	1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
PureVideo HD