NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 240 MHz
24x more pipelines: 96 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
127x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 381 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 July 2008 vs 1 September 2002
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 240 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	381 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

40x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 81

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 81

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

381

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark	381	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	81	111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3237
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3237

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92	M9
Launch date	29 July 2008	1 September 2002
Place in performance rating	1345	1348
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	240 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	240 gflops
Gigaflops	360
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	96	4
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PureVideo HD