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GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon R9 380 2G
Intro
The GeForce 9800 GTX+ uses a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 738 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1100 MHz on this card. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ |
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145 Watts |
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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190 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 2G should theoretically be much better than the GeForce 9800 GTX+ in general. (explain)
| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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182400 MB/sec |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ |
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70400 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon R9 380 2G should be much (approximately 130%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9800 GTX+. (explain)| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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108640 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ |
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47232 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 2G is the winner, and very much so. (explain)| Radeon R9 380 2G |
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31040 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ |
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11808 Mpixels/sec |
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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.
Price Comparison
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Specifications
| Model | GeForce 9800 GTX+ | Radeon R9 380 2G |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | July 2008 | June 2015 |
| Code Name | G92b | Antigua PRO |
| Memory | 512 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 738 MHz | 970 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 2200 MHz | 5700 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 145 watts | 190 watts |
| Bandwidth | 70400 MB/sec | 182400 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 47232 Mtexels/sec | 108640 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 11808 Mpixels/sec | 31040 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 128 | 1792 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 64 | 112 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 754 million | 5000 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 2.0 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10 | DirectX 12.0 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.0 | OpenGL 4.5 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum 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 clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
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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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