AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.3x more texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 76.8 billion / sec
16x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2x 128
10.7x better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 2x 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 197 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 18 March 2008
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 76.8 billion / sec
Pipelines	4096 vs 2x 128
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 2x 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 197 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

2x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4607
PassMark - G3D Mark		798
PassMark - G2D Mark		518
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3238
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3238

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Fiji	G92
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	18 March 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	$599
Place in performance rating	491	487
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops	2x 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	4096	2x 128
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	76.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	197 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	754 million
Core clock speed		1500 MHz
CUDA cores		256 (128 per GPU)
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, HDMIDual Link DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	152 mm	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options		Quad
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	128 (64 per GPU)
Memory bus width	4096 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI