GeForce 9800S vs GTX 950A

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking559not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.37no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGM107G94
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)15 July 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores64064
Core clock speed993 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,870 million505 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate44.9619.20
Floating-point processing power1.439 TFLOPS0.192 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4032

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options-+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1001 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth32.03 GB/s51.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsVGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIno dataS/PDIF + HDA

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA5.0+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 15 July 2008
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

GTX 950A has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950A and GeForce 9800S. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
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