AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +224%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Mar 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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