ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Mar 2008
Rage 2
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
512MB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
128
1
TMUs
64
1
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
197W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
G92
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Rage 2
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
