AMD Radeon RX 570X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 570X and NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX 570X

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 570X

Videocard is newer: launch date 99 year(s) 8 month(s) later
8293.2x more texture fill rate: 159.23 GTexel/s vs 19.2 billion / sec
32x more pipelines: 2048 vs 64
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
8.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 750 vs 427
3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1923 vs 636

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2108 vs 15 July 2008
Texture fill rate	159.23 GTexel/s vs 19.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	2048 vs 64
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	750 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark	1923 vs 636

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1168 MHz
37.6x better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 5.1 TFLOPs
Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 120 Watt

Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1168 MHz
Floating-point performance	192 gflops vs 5.1 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 570X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

750

427

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1923

636

Name	AMD Radeon RX 570X	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8697
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8697
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3101
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3345
PassMark - G2D Mark	750	427
PassMark - G3D Mark	1923	636
Geekbench - OpenCL	38939

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 570X	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla
Code name	Polaris 20	G94
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2108	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	337	343
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1244 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	1168 MHz	1500 MHz
Floating-point performance	5.1 TFLOPs	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	2048	64
Pixel fill rate	39.81 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2048
Texture fill rate	159.23 GTexel/s	19.2 billion / sec
Texture Units	128
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	505 million
CUDA cores		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF + HDA
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
CUDA
SLI