AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 141W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +951%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/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

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G92B

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

141W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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