GeForce 9800 GX2 and Radeon HD 4870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GX2 vs Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
Radeon HD 4870 X2
1348
GeForce 9800 GX2
Radeon HD 4870 X2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
R700
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
256 (128 per GPU)
-
Floating-point performance
2x 384.0 gflops
2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
800
Power consumption (TDP)
197 Watt
286 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
76.8 billion/sec
28.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128 (64 per GPU)
115.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A