AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8870 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800S videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8870

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.5x more texture fill rate: 48 GTexel / s vs 19.2 billion / sec
12x more pipelines: 768 vs 64
8x better floating-point performance: 1,536 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
7.5x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 800 MHz
5.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3368 vs 636
Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 708 vs 427

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 15 July 2008
Texture fill rate	48 GTexel / s vs 19.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	768 vs 64
Floating-point performance	1,536 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3368 vs 636
PassMark - G2D Mark	708 vs 427

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3368

636

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

708

427

Name	AMD Radeon E8870	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
PassMark - G3D Mark	3368	636
PassMark - G2D Mark	708	427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	36.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	874.689
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.11
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	18191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	18191

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8870	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Saturn	G94
Launch date	29 September 2015	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	341	343
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	1500 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,536 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	768	64
Texture fill rate	48 GTexel / s	19.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	2,080 million	505 million
CUDA cores		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF + HDA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
CUDA
SLI