Radeon HD 8870M and GeForce 9800M GTX SLI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8870M
GeForce 9800M GTX SLI
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Venus
NB9E-GTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
775 MHz
-
Core clock speed
725 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
992.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
3016 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
224
Power consumption (TDP)
-
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.00
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Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
10
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
-
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
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