GeForce 9800 GT and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GT vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 9800 GT
492
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 9800 GT
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
112
-
Floating-point performance
336.0 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
112
320
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
33.6 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A