Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce 9800M GTX SLI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce 9800M GTX SLI
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Cypress
NB9E-GTX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
850 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
3016 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
224
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
10
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.4
-
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
-