AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 175W)