AMD Radeon Sky 700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 700

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 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 Sky 700 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 700 +740%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 700

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Mar 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1792

Shading Units

128

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

197W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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