GeForce 9800 GX2 and Beema - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GX2

Beema

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

G92

Beema

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2008

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

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SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

600 MHz

-

CUDA cores

256 (128 per GPU)

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Floating-point performance

2x 384.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

930 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

128

Power consumption (TDP)

197 Watt

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Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

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Texture fill rate

76.8 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

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Memory bus width

512 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

128 (64 per GPU)

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Display Connectors

HDMIDual Link DVI

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170