NVIDIA GeForce 9800S vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +1033%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 9M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Wimbledon

9800S

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 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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