ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1059not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.04no data
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameNB9E-GTM92
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 July 2008 (15 years old)1 January 2010 (14 years old)
Current price$230 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

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 cores6480
CUDA cores64no data
Core clock speed600 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors505 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate19.204.400
Floating-point performance192 gflops88 gflops
Gigaflops240no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 9800M GTS and Mobility Radeon HD 4550 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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

Memory

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s11.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

9800M GTS 4060
+286%
ATI Mobility HD 4550 1051

GeForce 9800M GTS outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 4550 by 286% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 15 July 2008 1 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9800M GTS and Mobility Radeon HD 4550. We've got no test results to judge.


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