AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 580X and NVIDIA GeForce 9800S videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 580X

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
9000x more texture fill rate: 172.8 GTexel/s vs 19.2 billion / sec
36x more pipelines: 2304 vs 64
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective) vs 800 MHz
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 427
11.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7540 vs 636

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 March 2019 vs 15 July 2008
Texture fill rate	172.8 GTexel/s vs 19.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	2304 vs 64
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective) vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	698 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark	7540 vs 636

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
2x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 150 Watt

Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 580X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

698

427

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7540

636

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 580X	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
Geekbench - OpenCL	37036
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3643
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
PassMark - G2D Mark	698	427
PassMark - G3D Mark	7540	636

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 580X	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla
Code name	Polaris 20	G94
Launch date	18 March 2019	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	346	343
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	345.6 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	5.530 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.530 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	64
Pixel fill rate	38.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	172.8 GTexel/s	19.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	5700 million	505 million
CUDA cores		64
Floating-point performance		192 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF + HDA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	217.0 GB/s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective)	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
CUDA
SLI