GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
27W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
RV516
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
