NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1249 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 50% higher pipelines: 96 vs 64
Around 25% better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 389 vs 357
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 85 vs 72
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3123 vs 3076
Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3123 vs 3076

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 21 August 2008
Core clock speed	1249 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 64
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	389 vs 357
PassMark - G2D Mark	85 vs 72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3123 vs 3076
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3123 vs 3076

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

389

357

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3123

3076

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3123

3076

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
PassMark - G3D Mark	389	357
PassMark - G2D Mark	85	72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3123	3076
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3123	3076
Geekbench - OpenCL	8210

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT215	G94
Launch date	7 January 2010	21 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1373	1376
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1249 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	96	64
Floating-point performance	240 gflops	192 gflops
Gigaflops	360	240
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	64
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	727 million	505 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortLVDSHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGA	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	large
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management	8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI
PureVideo HD