AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 5x more pipelines: 320 vs 64
  • Around 67% better floating-point performance: 283.52 gflops vs 169.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 136 vs 57
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 June 2011 vs 1 November 2008
Pipelines 320 vs 64
Floating-point performance 283.52 gflops vs 169.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 vs 57

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 530 MHz vs 443 MHz
  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 16 billion / sec vs 7.09 GTexel / s
  • Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 555 vs 337
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2414 vs 1614
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2414 vs 1614
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 530 MHz vs 443 MHz
Texture fill rate 16 billion / sec vs 7.09 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 555 vs 337
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2414 vs 1614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2414 vs 1614

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
337
555
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1614
2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1614
2414
Name AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 337 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 57
Geekbench - OpenCL 882
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 733
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 733
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1104
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1104
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1614 2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1614 2414

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name BeaverCreek G94
Launch date 20 June 2011 1 November 2008
Place in performance rating 1466 1468
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 443 MHz 530 MHz
Floating-point performance 283.52 gflops 169.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 320 64
Texture fill rate 7.09 GTexel / s 16 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 1,450 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Gigaflops 254

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

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

Technologies

CUDA
Power management 8.0