NVIDIA GeForce 9800S vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

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

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +433%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 9M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

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

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Heathrow

9800S

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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