AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +982%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

0.448 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

128

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.60 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

448.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G92

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

125W

600 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

1x 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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