NVIDIA GeForce 9800S vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M +462%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

VS

Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Granville

9800S

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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