ATI Radeon 9800 vs GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1421
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.28
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameTU106BR350
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 June 2020 (4 years ago)1 March 2003 (21 year ago)

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 cores2304no data
Core clock speed900 MHz325 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHzno data
Number of transistors10,800 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt37 Watt
Texture fill rate162.02.600
Floating-point processing power5.184 TFLOPSno data
ROPs648
TMUs1448
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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 3.0 x16AGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz290 MHz
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/s18.56 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 June 2020 1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 12 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 37 Watt

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 17 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 9800, on the other hand, has 210.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon 9800. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon 9800 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh
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