AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +773%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2009

Volcanic 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

1100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/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

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

G92B

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

141W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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