GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon HD 8860 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM 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 175W)
Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1168 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
+604%
2368
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 9
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1280
56
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
Curacao
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1