NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +1606%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 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

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Vesuvius

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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