GeForce 9800 GTX+ and Radeon HD 2900 XTX - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX+

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

G92B

R600

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2009

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

SLI options

Core clock speed

738 MHz

743 MHz

CUDA cores

128

Floating-point performance

470.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

720 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

320

Power consumption (TDP)

141 Watt

240 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

47.2 billion/sec

11.89

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

1656 MBps

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

106.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

3.3 (full) Shader Model4.04.0

Vulkan

N/A