AMD Radeon R5 M230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 +103%

0.39 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

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GeForce 9800S

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

855 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

64

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.880 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

12.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

390.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

24.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

G94

Jet S3 ULT

GPU Variant

9800S

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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