NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs ATI Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A and ATI 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

ATI Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 325 MHz
15.3x more texture fill rate: 39.72 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
6.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 580 MHz
44.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2568 vs 58
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 262 vs 191

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	914 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.72 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2568 vs 58
PassMark - G2D Mark	262 vs 191

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9800

2x lower typical power consumption: 37 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	37 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2568

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

262

191

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A	ATI Radeon 9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	2568	58
PassMark - G2D Mark	262	191
Geekbench - OpenCL	10292
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3289
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3289

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A	ATI Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 8
Code name	GM107	R350
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	916	912
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	325 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,271 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	39.72 GTexel / s	2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	37 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	117 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s	18.56 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	580 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR