GeForce 9800 GTX and Radeon 9000 PRO - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX

Radeon 9000 PRO

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

G92

RV250

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2008

July 2002

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

675 MHz

275 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

432.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

36 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

-

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

28 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

43.2 billion/sec

1.100

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

550 MHz

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

8.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

Via Adapter

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

8.1

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

1.4

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A