NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250 +86%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

197W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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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