AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +886%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

197W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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