NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM 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 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM +62%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

128

Shading Units

480

64

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Turks

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

197W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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