Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT vs GeForce 9800M GS

Primary Details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	948	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	0.11	no data
Architecture	G9x (2007−2010)	RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code name	NB9E-GS1	M76-XT
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 November 2008 (15 years ago)	14 May 2007 (16 years ago)
Current price	$180	no data

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	64	120
CUDA cores	64	no data
Core clock speed	530 MHz	700 MHz
Number of transistors	505 million	390 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	16 billion/sec	5.440
Floating-point performance	169.6 gflops	163.2 gflops
Gigaflops	254	no data

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on GeForce 9800M GS and Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM Capacity and Type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256+ MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	24 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Supported GPU Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API Compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & Cons Summary

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Recency	1 November 2008	14 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256+ MB
Chip lithography	55 nm	65 nm

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