NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS and ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more texture fill rate: 16 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 18% better floating-point performance: 169.6 gflops vs 144 gflops
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2414 vs 2187
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2414 vs 2187
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 November 2008 vs 7 January 2008
Texture fill rate 16 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 169.6 gflops vs 144 gflops
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2414 vs 2187
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2414 vs 2187

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 530 MHz
  • Around 88% higher pipelines: 120 vs 64
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 530 MHz
Pipelines 120 vs 64
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2414
2187
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2414
2187
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
PassMark - G3D Mark 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2414 2187
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2414 2187

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

Essentials

Architecture Tesla TeraScale
Code name G94 M86
Launch date 1 November 2008 7 January 2008
Place in performance rating 1467 1470
Type Laptop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 530 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 64
Floating-point performance 169.6 gflops 144 gflops
Gigaflops 254
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 64 120
Texture fill rate 16 billion / sec 4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt
Transistor count 505 million 378 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.1
OpenGL 2.1 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
Power management 8.0
PCI-E 2.0