Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce 9800 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce 9800 GT
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce 9800 GT
492
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce 9800 GT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Neptune
G92
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
112
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
112
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
105 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
72.00
33.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
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