GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon HD 4890
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 190W)
Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.8GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
688 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
Radeon HD 4890
+304%
1360
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Apr 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
975 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
124.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
800
56
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.60 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.00 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1360 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
272.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
190W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
RV790
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
RV790 XT
(215-0758016)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.959 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
282 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
