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GeForce 9800 GX2 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GX2 uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 600 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce 9800 GX2 197 Watts
Difference: 122 Watts (163%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 9800 GX2 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GX2 128000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GX2 should be much (approximately 26%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GX2 76800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15760 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9800 GX2 is superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GX2 19200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1760 (10%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9800 GX2 Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Mar 2008 August 2016
Code Name G92 Polaris 11
Memory 512 MB (x2) 2048 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz (x2) 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz (x2) 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 197 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 76800 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 19200 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 (x2) 896
Texture Mapping Units 64 (x2) 56
Render Output Units 16 (x2) 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 14 nm
Transistors 754 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GX2

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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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