GeForce 9800S vs Radeon RX 570

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking300not rated
Place by popularity18not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation16.56no data
Power efficiency10.46no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code namePolaris 20G94
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)15 July 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 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 cores204864
Core clock speed1168 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1244 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million505 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate159.219.20
Floating-point processing power5.095 TFLOPS0.192 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs12832

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s51.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortVGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI++
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIno dataS/PDIF + HDA

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 15 July 2008
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 75 Watt

RX 570 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 9800S, on the other hand, has 60% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570 and GeForce 9800S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 570 is a desktop card while GeForce 9800S is a notebook one.


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