AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +579%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1024

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

197W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

G92

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

123 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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