ATI Radeon HD 3830 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3830 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3830

  • 2.5x more pipelines: 320 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 87% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 140 Watt
  • Around 51% higher memory clock speed: 1656 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines 320 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 140 Watt
Memory clock speed 1656 MHz vs 1100 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 1688 MHz vs 668 MHz
  • 4x more texture fill rate: 43.2 billion / sec vs 10.69 GTexel / s
  • Around 1% better floating-point performance: 432.1 gflops vs 427.5 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Core clock speed 1688 MHz vs 668 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.2 billion / sec vs 10.69 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 432.1 gflops vs 427.5 gflops
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 256 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3830
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Name ATI Radeon HD 3830 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
PassMark - G2D Mark 366
PassMark - G3D Mark 769

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 3830 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name RV670 G92
Launch date 1 April 2008 28 March 2008
Place in performance rating not rated 411
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $299

Technical info

Core clock speed 668 MHz 1688 MHz
Floating-point performance 427.5 gflops 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 320 128
Texture fill rate 10.69 GTexel / s 43.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 140 Watt
Transistor count 666 million 754 million
CUDA cores 128
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 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 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 26.5 GB / s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1656 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI

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