GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon R5 230

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
Radeon R5 230
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2014
Radeon R5 230

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 230

106 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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 9800 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon R5 230
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs370 million
Shaders112vs160
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon R5 230
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon R5 230
TDP125 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs3 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    10.67 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better