AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +771%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/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

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

G92B

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

141W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-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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