AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6430M and ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 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.

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 37% higher texture fill rate: 3.84 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
20x more pipelines: 160 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 193 vs 46

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 1 July 2004
Core clock speed	480 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.84 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	160 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	193 vs 46

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 110 vs 106

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	110 vs 106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6430M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

193

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

110

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	193	46
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	110

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	R400
Code name	Seymour	M18
Launch date	4 January 2011	1 July 2004
Place in performance rating	1314	1316
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	160	8
Texture fill rate	3.84 GTexel / s	2.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million	160 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	256
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
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