AMD Radeon R9 M295X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M295X and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 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 - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 92.54 GTexel / s vs 76.8 billion / sec
• 8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 2x 128
• 3.9x better floating-point performance: 2,961 gflops vs 2x 384.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
• 6.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5150 vs 798
• Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 832 vs 518

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

• 2.1x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 723 MHz
• Around 27% lower typical power consumption: 197 Watt vs 250 Watt
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3238 vs 3144
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3238 vs 3144

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M295X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	5150 798
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	832 518
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3144 3238
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3144 3238

Compare specifications (specs)