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GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon HD 5770

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ has core speeds of 738 MHz on the GPU, and 1100 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5770, which features a GPU core clock speed of 850 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1200 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5770 108 Watts
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 145 Watts
Difference: 37 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 5770 should in theory be just a bit superior to the GeForce 9800 GTX+ in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 70400 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ will be much (about 39%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13232 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5770 should be just a bit (more or less 15%) better at AA than the GeForce 9800 GTX+, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 11808 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1792 (15%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9800 GTX+ Radeon HD 5770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 October 13, 2009
Code Name G92b Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 76800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 34000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 13600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

2 Responses to “GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon HD 5770”
Upgrading Intel E6750 Stock Air Cooler (LGA 755) - Page 8 says:

[...] twice as good. It performs smilarly (5% better overall) than a 5770, which is about overall about 15% better than a 9800GTX. The 550 is a pretty low end card, better yes, twice as good - definitely no. [...]

Fred says:

Actually according to Textural rate the 9800GTX+ beats the 5770. If the 2 cards were tested at lower resolution like 1280x1024 the 9800 GTX+ would take it in fps in almost all games above. And if you have a 17inch monitor thats the highest res you can go anyway.

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