
GeForce 9800M GTS SLI and Radeon HD 8730M - video card comparison
GeForce 9800M GTS SLI
Radeon HD 8730M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
NB9E-GT
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
600 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1508 Million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
384
Power consumption (TDP)
150 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