GeForce 9800 GTX and Radeon HD 8530M - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX

Radeon HD 8530M

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

G92

Mars

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2008

January 2014

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

700 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

650 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

432.1 gflops

537.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

320

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

43.2 billion/sec

11.20

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

Via Adapter

-

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