AMD Radeon HD 8570D vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8570D and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8570D

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 844 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 4x more pipelines: 256 vs 64
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 435 vs 376
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 159 vs 87
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 September 2012 vs 21 August 2008
Core clock speed 844 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines 256 vs 64
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 435 vs 376
PassMark - G2D Mark 159 vs 87

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3076 vs 2966
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3076 vs 2966
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3076 vs 2966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3076 vs 2966

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8570D
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
435
376
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
159
87
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2966
3076
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2966
3076
Name AMD Radeon HD 8570D NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
PassMark - G3D Mark 435 376
PassMark - G2D Mark 159 87
Geekbench - OpenCL 1491
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1924
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2966 3076
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1924
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2966 3076
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8570D NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Tesla
Code name Richland G94
Launch date 26 September 2012 21 August 2008
Place in performance rating 1336 1340
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 844 MHz 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 256 64
CUDA cores 64
Floating-point performance 192 gflops
Gigaflops 240
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 505 million

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD