NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +1428%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GS

0.17 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce 9800M GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1344

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.96 GTexel/s

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

169.6 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G94

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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