NVIDIA GeForce 930A vs ATI Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 930A and ATI 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 930A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.9x more core clock speed: 928 MHz vs 325 MHz
  • 8.7x more texture fill rate: 22.58 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
  • Around 12% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 37 Watt
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 580 MHz
  • 21.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1267 vs 58
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 216 vs 191
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed 928 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate 22.58 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 37 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1267 vs 58
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 vs 191

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 930A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1267
58
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
216
191
Name NVIDIA GeForce 930A ATI Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark 1267 58
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 191
Geekbench - OpenCL 5317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2081
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2081
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3192
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3192
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 930A ATI Radeon 9800

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Rage 8
Code name GM108 R350
Launch date 13 March 2015 1 March 2003
Place in performance rating 924 921
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 941 MHz
Core clock speed 928 MHz 325 MHz
Floating-point performance 722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 22.58 GTexel / s 2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 37 Watt
Transistor count 117 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 18.56 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 580 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR