NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4 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.

NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4

9.7x more texture fill rate: 4x 51.8 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 46.4 GTexel / s
7.5x more pipelines: 4x 240 vs 128
5.6x better floating-point performance: 4x 622.1 gflops vs 448.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4x 4 GB vs 512 MB

Texture fill rate	4x 51.8 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 46.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4x 240 vs 128
Floating-point performance	4x 622.1 gflops vs 448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4x 4 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 648 MHz
4.8x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 600 Watt
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 648 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 600 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT200B	G92
Launch date	25 July 2008	21 July 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$160
Technical info
Core clock speed	648 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	4x 622.1 gflops	448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	4x 240	128
Texture fill rate	4x 51.8 GTexel / s billion / sec	46.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	600 Watt	125 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	522 mm	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4x 4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	4x 102.4 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	4x 512 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3