NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 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: 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 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
5.2x more core clock speed: 1836 MHz vs 350 MHz
16.9x more texture fill rate: 47.2 billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
16x more pipelines: 128 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 83% higher memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 600 MHz
10.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 494 vs 46

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 January 2009 vs 1 July 2004
Core clock speed	1836 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	47.2 billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	494 vs 46

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 110 vs 83

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	110 vs 83

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

110

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

494

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
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	110
PassMark - G3D Mark	494	46

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+	ATI Mobility Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R400
Code name	G92B	M18
Launch date	16 January 2009	1 July 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$229
Place in performance rating	1310	1312
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1836 MHz	350 MHz
CUDA cores	128
Floating-point performance	470.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	128	8
Texture fill rate	47.2 billion / sec	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	141 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	160 million
Boost clock speed		350 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 8x
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options	2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	70.4 GB / s	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	256
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI
Powerplay