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.

AMD Radeon R9 370

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

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	407	404
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