NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTS and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 110W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800M GTS

0.192 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 +119%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTS

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 9M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

110W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

M88

NB9E-GT1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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