GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 4700 - video card comparison
GeForce 9800 GX2
Radeon HD 4700
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
RV730
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
256 (128 per GPU)
-
Floating-point performance
2x 384.0 gflops
384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
514 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
320
Power consumption (TDP)
197 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
76.8 billion/sec
19.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128 (64 per GPU)
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A