AMD Radeon HD 6620G vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6620G and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 6620G

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6620G

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
3.6x more pipelines: 400 vs 112
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 103 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 June 2011 vs 15 July 2008
Pipelines	400 vs 112
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	103 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 454 vs 341

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	454 vs 341

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6620G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

103

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

341

454

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6620G	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
Geekbench - OpenCL	887
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	790
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	790
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1755
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1755
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3310
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3310
PassMark - G2D Mark	103	89
PassMark - G3D Mark	341	454

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6620G	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Tesla
Code name	Llano	G92
Launch date	15 June 2011	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1344	1347
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$328.50
Price now		$328.50
Value for money (0-100)		2.78
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	400	112
Transistor count	1000 Million	754 million
CUDA cores per GPU		112
Floating-point performance		280 gflops
Gigaflops		420
Texture fill rate		28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Shared memory	1	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
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
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
SLI