AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +1737%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce 9800 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2304

Shading Units

112

144

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G92B

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

G92-280-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

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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