Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce 9800M GTS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce 9800M GTS
Radeon HD 4870
1411
GeForce 9800M GTS
387
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce 9800M GTS
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
RV770
NB9E-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2008
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
750 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
64
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
192 gflops
Gigaflops
-
240
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
64
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
19.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A