NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more pipelines: 144 vs 64
  • Around 49% better floating-point performance: 253.4 gflops vs 169.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 60 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 561 vs 555
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 169 vs 57
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 1 November 2008
Pipelines 144 vs 64
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops vs 169.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 60 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 561 vs 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 169 vs 57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2418 vs 2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2418 vs 2414

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
561
555
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
169
57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2418
2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2418
2414
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 561 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 169 57
Geekbench - OpenCL 2489
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.332
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 205.545
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 22.728
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 800
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1833
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2418 2414
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 800
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1833
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2418 2414

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla
Code name GF116 G94
Launch date 22 March 2012 1 November 2008
Place in performance rating 1458 1461
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 753 MHz
CUDA cores Up to 144 64
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops 169.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 144 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 505 million
Core clock speed 530 MHz
Gigaflops 254
Texture fill rate 16 billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
Power management 8.0