ATI Radeon HD 4720 vs GeForce 9800 GX2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking878not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.05no data
Power efficiency0.72no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG92RV730
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 March 2008 (16 years ago)11 December 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores256 (128 per GPU)320
Core clock speed600 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors754 million514 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)197 Watt55 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature105 °Cno data
Texture fill rate38.4019.20
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs6432

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm193 mm
Height2-slotno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data
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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz667 MHz
Memory bandwidth128 (64 per GPU)21.34 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 ConnectorsHDMIDual Link DVI2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 March 2008 11 December 2011
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 197 Watt 55 Watt

ATI HD 4720 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 18.2% more advanced lithography process, and 258.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 4720. We've got no test results to judge.


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