GeForce 800A vs ATI Mobility Radeon
Aggregate performance score
We've compared Mobility Radeon and GeForce 800A, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
ATI Mobility outperforms 800A by a small 7% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1025 | 1044 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 5.67 |
| Architecture | Rage 6 (2000−2007) | Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014) |
| GPU code name | M6 | GF119 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 December 2001 (23 years ago) | 17 March 2014 (10 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 cores | no data | 48 |
| Core clock speed | 144 MHz | 475 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 30 million | 292 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 180 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 15 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 0.43 | 3.800 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 0.0912 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 1 | 4 |
| TMUs | 3 | 8 |
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).
| Interface | AGP 4x | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
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 | DDR | DDR3 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 MB | 1 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 144 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 2.304 GB/s | 14.4 GB/s |
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 |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | 12 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.1 |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 1.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
| CUDA | - | 2.1 |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.33 | 1.24 |
| Recency | 1 December 2001 | 17 March 2014 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 MB | 1 GB |
| Chip lithography | 180 nm | 40 nm |
ATI Mobility has a 7.3% higher aggregate performance score.
GeForce 800A, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 350% more advanced lithography process.
Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Mobility Radeon and GeForce 800A.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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