NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
7.7x more core clock speed: 1836 MHz vs 240 MHz
32x more pipelines: 128 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
164.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 494 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 January 2009 vs 1 September 2002
Core clock speed	1836 MHz vs 240 MHz
Pipelines	128 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	494 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

20.3x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 47.2 billion / sec
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 83

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 47.2 billion / sec
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 83

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

494

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	54.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	15.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	108.412
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3309
PassMark - G2D Mark	83	111
PassMark - G3D Mark	494	3

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92B	M9
Launch date	16 January 2009	1 September 2002
Launch price (MSRP)	$229
Place in performance rating	1310	1313
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1836 MHz	240 MHz
CUDA cores	128
Floating-point performance	470.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	128	4
Texture fill rate	47.2 billion / sec	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	141 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options	2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	2.1	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	70.4 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI