AMD Radeon R9 380X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380X

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +1082%

3.973 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

GeForce 9800 GT

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jul 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2048

Shading Units

112

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

G92B

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

G92-280-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

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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