ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +257%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce 9800 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

800

Shading Units

112

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G92B

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

G92-280-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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