GeForce 9800 GT and Radeon RX 580 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

G92

Ellesmere

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

June 2016

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1266 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

1120 MHz

CUDA cores

112

-

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

5,834 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

150 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

33.6 billion/sec

182.3

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131