NVIDIA GeForce 9800S vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition +150%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

VS

Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 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

Whistler

9800S

GPU Variant

Whistler LP

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

104 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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