AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +313%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GT

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce 9800M GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

G92

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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