NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP +27%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

RV670

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

2

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

3

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD FirePro W7000

4

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon Pro 5300

5

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs ATI Radeon X1050 AGP

6

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs Intel Arc B570

7

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

8

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

9

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

10

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs ATI FireGL V7700

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption