NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7650A
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
Conclusion
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General info
Comparison of GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 7650A architecture, market type and release date.
Technical specs
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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