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.

 

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
  • 11x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 507 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 507 vs 46

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 110 vs 88
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 110 vs 88

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
88
110
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
507
46
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 88 110
PassMark - G3D Mark 507 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 1307 1310
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