ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 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)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +483%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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GeForce 9800S

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Jul 2008

Manhattan

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

800

Shading Units

64

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

G94

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

9800S

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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