NVIDIA GeForce 9800S vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +759%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 9M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Saturn

9800S

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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