NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +1119%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Sea 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

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

112

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Malta

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

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