GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition vs ATI Radeon 9800 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1424not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.17no data
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameR360GT200B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)16 February 2010 (14 years 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 coresno data240
Core clock speed412 MHz633 MHz
Number of transistors117 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt219 Watt
Texture fill rate3.29650.64
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs828
TMUs880

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB896 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit448 Bit
Memory clock speed365 MHz1134 MHz
Memory bandwidth23.36 GB/s127.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.011.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 16 February 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 896 MB
Chip lithography 150 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 219 Watt

ATI 9800 XT has 265% lower power consumption.

GTX 275 PhysX Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 250% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9800 XT and GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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