AMD Radeon R9 370 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 370 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 370

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 81% higher texture fill rate: 78 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
  • 10x more pipelines: 1280 vs 128
  • 5.8x better floating-point performance: 2,496 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 27% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 140 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 5.1x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 6.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4722 vs 769
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 781 vs 366
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 May 2015 vs 28 March 2008
Texture fill rate 78 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 1280 vs 128
Floating-point performance 2,496 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 140 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4722 vs 769
PassMark - G2D Mark 781 vs 366

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

  • Around 82% higher core clock speed: 1688 MHz vs 925 MHz
Core clock speed 1688 MHz vs 925 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 370
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4722
769
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
781
366
Name AMD Radeon R9 370 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 4722 769
PassMark - G2D Mark 781 366
Geekbench - OpenCL 75346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 64.576
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 336.491
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6096
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6096
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 370 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla
Code name Trinidad G92
Launch date 5 May 2015 28 March 2008
Place in performance rating 414 411
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $299

Technical info

Boost clock speed 975 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz 1688 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,496 gflops 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1280 128
Texture fill rate 78 GTexel / s 43.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt 140 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 754 million
CUDA cores 128
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 221 mm 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB / s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI