NVIDIA GeForce 615 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 615 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 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), 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 615

ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 615

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 660 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 89% higher texture fill rate: 5.28 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 48 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 600 MHz
11.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 514 vs 46
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 301 vs 110

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2012 vs 1 July 2004
Core clock speed	660 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.28 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	48 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	514 vs 46
PassMark - G2D Mark	301 vs 110

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 615
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

514

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

301

110

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 615	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	514	46
PassMark - G2D Mark	301	110
Geekbench - OpenCL	1322
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	668
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1286
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1708
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	668
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1286
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1708

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 615	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	R400
Code name	GF108	M18
Launch date	15 May 2012	1 July 2004
Place in performance rating	1313	1315
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	660 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	126.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	48	8
Texture fill rate	5.28 GTexel / s	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	160 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	256
Shared memory		0
Technologies
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