NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 7.1x more texture fill rate: 136.7 GTexel / s vs 19.2 billion / sec
  • 20x more pipelines: 1280 vs 64
  • 22.8x better floating-point performance: 4,375 gflops vs 192 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 65 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
  • 10x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 15.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10075 vs 636
  • Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 749 vs 427
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 July 2016 vs 15 July 2008
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Texture fill rate 136.7 GTexel / s vs 19.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 1280 vs 64
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 10075 vs 636
PassMark - G2D Mark 749 vs 427

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 120 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
10075
636
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
749
427
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
PassMark - G3D Mark 10075 636
PassMark - G2D Mark 749 427
Geekbench - OpenCL 35320
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 119.148
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1373.562
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.694
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.766
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 454.799
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12442
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12442
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4208

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Tesla
Code name GP106 G94
Launch date 19 July 2016 15 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating 346 349
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1709 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 1500 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1280 64
Texture fill rate 136.7 GTexel / s 19.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF + HDA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 250 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

CUDA
SLI