GeForce 9800 GTX+ and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 9800 GTX+
521
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 9800 GTX+
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92B
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2009
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
738 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
470.0 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
320
Power consumption (TDP)
141 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 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