GeForce 9800 GTX and Radeon HD 5950 - video card comparison
GeForce 9800 GTX
Radeon HD 5950
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G92
Hemlock
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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
432.1 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
302 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
43.2 billion/sec
52.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
Via Adapter
+
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