ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.6x more pipelines: 400 vs 112
Around 29% better floating-point performance: 360.0 gflops vs 280 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 89

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 15 July 2008
Pipelines	400 vs 112
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops vs 280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	149 vs 89

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
3.1x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 454 vs 444

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	454 vs 444

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

444

454

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	444	454
PassMark - G2D Mark	149	89
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
Geekbench - OpenCL	3776
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Madison	G92
Launch date	7 January 2010	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1362	1364
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$328.50
Price now		$328.50
Value for money (0-100)		2.78
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops	280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	400	112
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s	28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	754 million
CUDA cores per GPU		112
Gigaflops		420
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	1 GB
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	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
SLI