NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00
$ 248.50
$ 40.50 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
1754% significantly better overall score
111 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
491st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce 9800 GT benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce 9800 GT in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the GeForce 9800 GT.

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