AMD Radeon HD 8830M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8830M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 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: 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 8830M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
5x more pipelines: 640 vs 128
Around 85% better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 82% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz

Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 28 March 2008
Pipelines	640 vs 128
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

2.9x more core clock speed: 1688 MHz vs 575 MHz
Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 43.2 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	1688 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.2 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8830M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8830M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5106
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5106
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	11302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	11302
PassMark - G2D Mark		366
PassMark - G3D Mark		769

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8830M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Venus	G92
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	28 March 2008
Place in performance rating	437	438
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Boost clock speed	575 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	575 MHz	1688 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops	432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	640	128
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s	43.2 billion / sec
Transistor count	1,500 million	754 million
CUDA cores		128
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		140 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	32 GB / s	70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI