NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +521%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

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Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

112

Shading Units

1440

56

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cypress

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

151W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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