NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand 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 950

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 49.2 billion / sec vs 46.4 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 768 vs 128
  • 4.1x better floating-point performance: 1,825 gflops vs 448.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 39% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 125 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Launch date 20 August 2015 vs 21 July 2008
Core clock speed 1024 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate 49.2 billion / sec vs 46.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 128
Floating-point performance 1,825 gflops vs 448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt vs 125 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

  • 333.3x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand
PassMark - G3D Mark 5340
PassMark - G2D Mark 641
Geekbench - OpenCL 16728
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 60.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 758.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.279
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 29.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 231.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 105

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Tesla
Code name GM206 G92
Launch date 20 August 2015 21 July 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $159 $160
Place in performance rating 547 not rated
Price now $194.44
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 30.06

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1188 MHz
Core clock speed 1024 MHz 725 MHz
CUDA cores 768
Floating-point performance 1,825 gflops 448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 768 128
Texture fill rate 49.2 billion / sec 46.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt 125 Watt
Transistor count 2,940 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 7.938" (20.2 cm) 229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
SLI options 2x
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pins 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 105.6 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.6 GB/s 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround