AMD Radeon HD 6630M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6630M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6630M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6630M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
7.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 64
2.5x better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 685 vs 357
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 390 vs 72

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 21 August 2008
Pipelines	480 vs 64
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	685 vs 357
PassMark - G2D Mark	390 vs 72

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3076 vs 2368
Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3076 vs 2368

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3076 vs 2368
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3076 vs 2368

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6630M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

685

357

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

390

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2368

3076

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2368

3076

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
PassMark - G3D Mark	685	357
PassMark - G2D Mark	390	72
Geekbench - OpenCL	984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	142.549
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.527
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	42.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	424
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2368	3076
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	424
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2368	3076

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Whistler	G94
Launch date	4 January 2011	21 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1372	1374
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	64
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	505 million
CUDA cores		64
Gigaflops		240
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	medium sized	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	25.6 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD