ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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ATI Radeon HD 5950 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +443%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

128

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G92

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

197W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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