AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6430M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 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 - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 25% higher pipelines: 160 vs 128
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 106 vs 83

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 16 January 2009
Pipelines	160 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	106 vs 83

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

3.8x more core clock speed: 1836 MHz vs 480 MHz
12.3x more texture fill rate: 47.2 billion / sec vs 3.84 GTexel / s
3.1x better floating-point performance: 470.0 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 494 vs 193

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1836 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	47.2 billion / sec vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	470.0 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	494 vs 193

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6430M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

193

494

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
PassMark - G3D Mark	193	494
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		54.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		15.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		108.412
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3309

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Seymour	G92B
Launch date	4 January 2011	16 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1309	1310
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	1836 MHz
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops	470.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	160	128
Texture fill rate	3.84 GTexel / s	47.2 billion / sec
Transistor count	370 million	754 million
CUDA cores		128
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		141 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI