AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +471%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

0.448 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jul 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.60 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.40 GTexel/s

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

448.0 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G92

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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