NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M 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 - 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 GTX

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 11% better floating-point performance: 311.04 gflops vs 280 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 771 vs 454
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 230 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2011 vs 15 July 2008
Core clock speed	1620 MHz vs 500 MHz
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops vs 280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	771 vs 454
PassMark - G2D Mark	230 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

2.2x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec
Around 17% higher pipelines: 112 vs 96

Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec
Pipelines	112 vs 96

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

771

454

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

230

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	771	454
PassMark - G2D Mark	230	89
Geekbench - OpenCL	2627
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)	0.646
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	19.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3275
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3275

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G92
Launch date	1 February 2011	15 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$328.50
Place in performance rating	1345	1347
Price now	$69.99	$328.50
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	14.03	2.78
Technical info
Core clock speed	1620 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops	280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	98 °C
Pipelines	96	112
Texture fill rate	13.0 billion / sec	28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	754 million
CUDA cores per GPU		112
Gigaflops		420
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	1 GB
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
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
SLI