ATI Radeon HD 3850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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ATI Radeon HD 3850 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 197W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 53.12GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 +11%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850

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GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Mar 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

830 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

53.12GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G92

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

197W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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