GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon HD 6390

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
Radeon HD 6390
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6390

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6390

86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GT .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon HD 6390
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsRedwood (Redwood LE)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs627 million
Shaders112vs320
Compute Units7vs4
Core clock600 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon HD 6390
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon HD 6390
TDP125 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs4 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6390
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6390
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6390
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6390
    352.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better