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GeForce 9800 GTX vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GTX uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 675 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1100 MHz on this specific card. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which features a clock frequency of 1825 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9800 GTX 140 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT 300 Watts
Difference: 160 Watts (114%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6900 XT should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce 9800 GTX in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT 524288 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX 70400 MB/sec
Difference: 453888 (645%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is quite a bit (about 1252%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9800 GTX. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT 584000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX 43200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 540800 (1252%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 2063%) better at AA than the GeForce 9800 GTX, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT 233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX 10800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 222800 (2063%)

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

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Model GeForce 9800 GTX Radeon RX 6900 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2008 2020
Code Name G92 Navi 21
Memory 512 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 1825 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 524288 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43200 Mtexels/sec 584000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10800 Mpixels/sec 233600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 5120
Texture Mapping Units 64 320
Render Output Units 16 128
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 7 nm
Transistors 754 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GTX

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Radeon RX 6900 XT

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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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