GeForce 9800 GX2 vs Radeon HD 7970
Summary
GeForce 9800 GX2
100%
Radeon HD 7970
415%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GX2 |
| 53 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 7970 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 315% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970
The Radeon HD 7970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G92 (G92-450-A2) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 324 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 754 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 128 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | | Radeon HD 7970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 197 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Mar 2008 | vs | 22 Dec 2011 |
GeForce 9800 GX2
19.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 9800 GX2
76.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970
118.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 9800 GX2
128.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970
264.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 9800 GX2
768.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970
3789.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce 9800 GX2
2590
Radeon HD 7970
10760
Points (higher is better)