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).

 

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
46
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 1316
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

Powerplay