NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4.6x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 81
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 January 2010 vs 29 July 2008
Core clock speed 1150 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 vs 81

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

  • 5.7x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 96 vs 16
  • 6.5x better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 381 vs 151
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 24 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 16
Floating-point performance 240 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 381 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
151
381
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
149
81
Name NVIDIA GeForce 305M NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 151 381
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 81
Geekbench - OpenCL 1987
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3237
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3237

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 305M NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Code name GT218 G92
Launch date 10 January 2010 29 July 2008
Place in performance rating 1331 1333
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1150 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 16 96
Floating-point performance 36.8 gflops 240 gflops
Gigaflops 55 360
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 16 96
Texture fill rate 4.2 GTexel / s 24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 260 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 2.1 3.3

Memory

Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD