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GeForce 9800 GX2 vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GX2 features a clock speed of 600 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It is made up of 128 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7770, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7770 80 Watts
GeForce 9800 GX2 197 Watts
Difference: 117 Watts (146%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce 9800 GX2 should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 7770 overall. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GX2 128000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7770 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 56000 (78%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GX2 will be quite a bit (about 92%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GX2 76800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 36800 (92%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GX2 is a little bit (more or less 20%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 7770, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GX2 19200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3200 (20%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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GeForce 9800 GX2

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9800 GX2 Radeon HD 7770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Mar 2008 February 2012
Code Name G92 Cape Verde XT
Memory 512 MB (x2) 1024 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz (x2) 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz (x2) 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 197 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 76800 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 19200 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 (x2) 640
Texture Mapping Units 64 (x2) 40
Render Output Units 16 (x2) 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GX2

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Radeon HD 7770

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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