GeForce 9800 GTX and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX

Radeon R7 Graphics

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

G92

Spectre

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2008

January 2014

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

980 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

686 MHz

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

432.1 gflops

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

512

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

43.2 billion/sec

31.36

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

70.4 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 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131