GeForce 9800 GT and Radeon HD 8550 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G92

Turks

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

October 2013

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

600 MHz

650 MHz

CUDA cores

112

-

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

624.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

480

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

60 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

33.6 billion/sec

15.60

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A