AMD Radeon R5 230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• Around 43% higher pipelines: 160 vs 112
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• 5.5x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 105 Watt
• 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
• 4.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 56

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

• 6.7x more texture fill rate: 33.6 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
• Around 68% better floating-point performance: 336.0 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
• 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 454 vs 222
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2845 vs 992
• 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2845 vs 992
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3304 vs 2480
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3304 vs 2480

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	222 454
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	255 56
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	992 2845
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	992 2845
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2480 3304
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2480 3304

Compare specifications (specs)