AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +1186%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2008

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

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2048

Shading Units

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

197W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G92

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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