Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce 9800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce 9800 GTX
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce 9800 GTX
792
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce 9800 GTX
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
March 2008
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
675 MHz
CUDA cores
-
128
Floating-point performance
-
432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
128
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
140 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
80.00
43.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
70.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
Via Adapter
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A