GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    139%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

75 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.
Around 39% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

The Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsOland ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders112vs320
Compute Units7vs5
Core clock600 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP125 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    1830

Points (higher is better)