AMD Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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Combined performance score

9800 GX2
2.06

Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) outperforms GeForce 9800 GX2 by 48% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking831722
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.09no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code nameG92Kaveri Spectre
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 March 2008 (16 years old)14 January 2014 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data
Current price$140 (0.2x MSRP)no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128512
CUDA cores256 (128 per GPU)no data
Core clock speed600 MHz720 MHz
Number of transistors754 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)197 Wattno data
Maximum GPU temperature105 °Cno data
Texture fill rate76.8 billion/secno data
Floating-point performance2x 384.0 gflopsno data

Size and 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 x16no data
Length10.5" (26.7 cm)no data
Height2-slotno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors6-pin & 8-pinno data
SLI options+no data

Memory

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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount512 MBno data
Memory bus width512 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth128 (64 per GPU)no data
Shared memoryno data+

Video outputs and ports

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 DVIno data
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+no data
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/Ano data
CUDA+no data

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD12−14
−50%
18
+50%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 2.06 3.05
Recency 18 March 2008 14 January 2014
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm

The Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 9800 GX2 in performance tests.


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