NVIDIA GeForce 9800S vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +119%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 9M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.14GB/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

55W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

M88

9800S

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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