AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6430M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 67% higher pipelines: 160 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 106 vs 81

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 29 July 2008
Pipelines	160 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	106 vs 81

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 480 MHz
6.3x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Around 56% better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 381 vs 193

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	381 vs 193

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

193

381

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	193	381
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	81
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3237
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3237

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Seymour	G92
Launch date	4 January 2011	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1343	1345
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	160	96
Texture fill rate	3.84 GTexel / s	24 GTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million	754 million
CUDA cores		96
Gigaflops		360
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		65 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PureVideo HD