NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530 +35%

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 9

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

400

64

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

197W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Redwood

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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