Radeon R3E Mobile Graphics vs GeForce 9800M GS

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking990not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.67no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG94Beema
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 November 2008 (16 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores64128
Core clock speed530 MHz351 MHz
Number of transistors505 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate16.962.808
Floating-point processing power0.1696 TFLOPS0.08986 TFLOPS
Gigaflops254no data
ROPs164
TMUs328

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

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

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2008 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 100 Watt

9800M GS has 66.7% lower power consumption.

R3E Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9800M GS and Radeon R3E Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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