AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 197W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +215%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

512

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

197W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G92

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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