NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 185W)
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1424 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+745%
2.842 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 9
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1536
56
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
185W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
Tahiti
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
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
