NVIDIA GeForce 9800S vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

336 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M +150%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

400

32

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Lexington

9800S

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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