Radeon R7 250E vs GeForce 9800 GT

Place in the ranking	1037	668
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.04	1.14
Power efficiency	0.69	5.50
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	G92	Cape Verde
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	21 July 2008 (16 years ago)	20 December 2013 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$160	$109

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

R7 250E has 2750% better value for money than 9800 GT.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	112	512
Core clock speed	600 MHz	800 MHz
Number of transistors	754 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	55 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	33.60	25.60
Floating-point processing power	0.336 TFLOPS	0.8192 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	56	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm	168 mm
Height	1-slot	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB/s	72 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	HDTVDual Link DVI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	4.0	5.1
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.24	4.37
Recency	21 July 2008	20 December 2013
Chip lithography	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	55 Watt

R7 250E has a 252.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 132.1% more advanced lithography process, and 90.9% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 250E is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 9800 GT in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.