Radeon X1950 XTX and GeForce 9800 GTX - video card comparison
Radeon X1950 XTX
GeForce 9800 GTX
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R580+
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2006
March 2008
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
650 MHz
675 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
-
432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
384 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
128
Power consumption (TDP)
125 Watt
140 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
10.40
43.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR4
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
70.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
Via Adapter
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0
2.1
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A