GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 128

480

CUDA cores

256 (128 per GPU)

n/d

Core clock speed

1500 MHz

600 MHz

Transistor count

754 million

716 million

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Power consumption (TDP)

197 Watt

33 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

n/d

Texture fill rate

76.8 billion / sec

14.4 GTexel / s

Floating-point performance

2x 384.0 gflops

576.0 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-A (3.0)

Length

10.5" (26.7 cm)

n/d

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

n/d

SLI options

Quad

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128 (64 per GPU)

28.8 GB / s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI

No outputs

Display Connectors

HDMIDual Link DVI

n/d

Multi monitor support

n/d

HDMI

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

n/d

Audio input for HDMI

S / PDIF

n/d

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision

CUDA

SLI

n/d

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

9800 GX2 0.26

HD 7650A 0.26

Passmark

9800 GX2 797 +0.4%

HD 7650A 794

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

n/d

54 Mh/s

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

Wider memory bus (512 vs 128 bit)

Higher memory bandwidth (128 vs 28.8 GB/s)

3D Vision

PhysX (hardware acceleration of physical simulation engine named PhysX)

CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture - an API for video card computing power usage in tasks different from 3D graphics processing. Can be used for physics simulation for instance)

SLI (Scalable Link Interface - a technology for uniting several NVIDIA GPUs processing power in one PC)

HDMI

3D Vision Surround

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7650A

Much newer (5 January 2012 vs 18 March 2008)

Cheaper ($262 vs $599)

More pipelines (480 vs 128)

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 vs 65 nm)

Less power hungry (33 vs 197 watts)

So, 9800 GX2 or HD 7650A?

Technical City couldn't decide between NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 and AMD Radeon HD 7650A. The differences in performance seem too small.

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