AMD FireStream 9370 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (197W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9370
+587%
2.64 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Mar 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1600
Shading Units
128
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
197W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G92
Cypress XT GL
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
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
