NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +1366%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

2816

64

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

64.00 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

197W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Hawaii

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

324 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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