Radeon RX 5770 vs GeForce 9800 GX2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking877not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.05no data
Power efficiency0.72no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameG92Navi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 March 2008 (16 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores256 (128 per GPU)no data
Core clock speed600 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors754 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)197 Watt225 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature105 °Cno data
Texture fill rate38.40no data
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs64no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Height2-slotno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount512 MBno data
Memory bus width512 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth128 (64 per GPU)no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsHDMIDual Link DVINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 197 Watt 225 Watt

9800 GX2 has 14.2% lower power consumption.

RX 5770, on the other hand, has a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon RX 5770. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
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