GeForce 9800M GT and Mobility Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
GeForce 9800M GT
Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code name
NB9E-GT2
M88-XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
July 2008
March 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
660 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
422.4 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
55 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.00
10.56
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
850 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A