GeForce 9800 GTX and Radeon RX 550 512SP - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

G92

Baffin

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2008

October 2017

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1071 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

-

CUDA cores

128

-

Floating-point performance

432.1 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

512

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

50 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

43.2 billion/sec

34.27

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

96 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2