GeForce 9800 GT and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GT

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G92

Broadway-XT

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

July 2008

January 2010

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

SLI options

Core clock speed

600 MHz

700 MHz

CUDA cores

112

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

1,120.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

1,040 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

800

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

50 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

33.6 billion/sec

28.00

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

64 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A