NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
VS
AMD FirePro W4170M
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
VS
AMD FirePro W4170M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

903
Place in performance rating
675
G9x
Architecture
GCN
G92
Code name
Mars
Laptop
Type
Mobile workstation
15 July 2008 (13 years ago)
Release date
16 November 2012 (9 years ago)
$61
Price now
$495
0.18
Value for money
0.18
NB9E-GT2
GPU code name
Mars XTX?
Laptop
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
384
500 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
no data
Boost Clock
900 MHz
754 million
Transistor count
950 million
65 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
24.00
Texture fill rate
21.60
240 gflops
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
96
CUDA cores
no data
360
Gigaflops
no data
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
no data
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
754 million
Number of transistors
950 million
65 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
medium sized

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
800 MHz
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
51.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
no data
AppAcceleration
+
no data
Enduro
+
+
PureVideo HD
no data
no data
PowerPlay
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
1.2.131
no data
Shader Model
5.1
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT and AMD FirePro W4170M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT or AMD FirePro W4170M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
AMD FirePro W4170M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
AMD FirePro W4170M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
AMD FirePro W4170M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
AMD FirePro W4170M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
AMD FirePro W4170M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Cheaper ($61 vs $495)

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 2 GB)

Advantages of AMD FirePro W4170M

2.59% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (384 vs 96)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 65 nm)

More memory bandwidth (64 GB/s vs 51.2 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT or AMD FirePro W4170M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD FirePro W4170M .

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT versus AMD FirePro W4170M performance benchmarks comparison

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