GeForce 9800 GTX and Radeon HD 3850 X3 - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX

Radeon HD 3850 X3

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

G92

RV670

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2008

-

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

675 MHz

669 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

432.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

320

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

145 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

43.2 billion/sec

10.70

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

1700 MBps

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

54.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

4x DVI

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

Via Adapter

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.1 (10_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

3.3 (full) Shader Model4.04.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A