GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile vs ATI Radeon 9800 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1422not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.17no data
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameR360TU106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)9 July 2019 (5 years ago)

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 coresno data2176
Core clock speed412 MHz1470 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1530 MHz
Number of transistors117 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate3.296208.1
Floating-point processing powerno data6.659 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs8136
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data34

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno data

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed365 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth23.36 GB/s448.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 9 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 175 Watt

ATI 9800 XT has 191.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9800 XT and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9800 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Mobile is a notebook one.


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