NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 285

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +879%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Tonga

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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