Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce 9800 GX2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs GeForce 9800 GX2
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce 9800 GX2
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R680
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
March 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
825 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
256 (128 per GPU)
Floating-point performance
2x 528.0 gflops
2x 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
128
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
197 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
13.20
76.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1802 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.66 GB/s
128 (64 per GPU)
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMIDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A