NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

400 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +260%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 9

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/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

18.93 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Lexa

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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