GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon R7 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Radeon R7 250 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
400 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (55W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
Radeon R7 250
+113%
717
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 9800 GT
394
Radeon R7 250
+42%
561
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 9
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
512
56
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
716.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
44.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
55W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
Cape Verde
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
123 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