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).

 

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
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 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 226 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
226
89
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 771 454
PassMark - G2D Mark 226 89
Geekbench - OpenCL 2620
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
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 1351 1353
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