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).

 

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 346 348
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