AMD Radeon HD 6650A vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6650A and NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 6650A

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
7.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 64
3x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 75 Watt
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 836 vs 636

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 April 2011 vs 15 July 2008
Pipelines	480 vs 64
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	836 vs 636

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

2.5x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 427 vs 418

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	427 vs 418

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6650A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

418

427

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

836

636

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6650A	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
PassMark - G2D Mark	418	427
PassMark - G3D Mark	836	636

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6650A	NVIDIA GeForce 9800S
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Onega	G94
Launch date	19 April 2011	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	351	349
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	1500 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	64
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	19.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	505 million
CUDA cores		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF + HDA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Technologies
CUDA
SLI