NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +1186%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 9

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

197W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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