GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 375W)
Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1936 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
Radeon R9 280X2
+1119%
4096
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 9
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
950 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
2048
56
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
375W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
Tahiti
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
352 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
