GeForce 9800M GT SLI and Radeon HD 8730M - video card comparison

GeForce 9800M GT SLI

Radeon HD 8730M

Architecture

G9x (2007−2010)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

NB9E-GT2

Mars

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

July 2008

November 2012

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x8

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

700 MHz

Core clock speed

500 MHz

650 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

537.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1508 Million

950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

384

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

-

16.80

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

32 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

10

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

5.1

Vulkan

-

1.2.131