AMD Radeon R9 380X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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AMD Radeon R9 380X NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +934%

3.973 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Mar 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

G92

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

197W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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