GeForce 9800 GT and Radeon HD 8990 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

G92

Malta

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

April 2013

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1000 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

950 MHz

CUDA cores

112

-

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

2x 4,096 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

375 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

33.6 billion/sec

128.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131