GeForce 9800M GTS SLI and Radeon HD 6850M - video card comparison
GeForce 9800M GTS SLI
Radeon HD 6850M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
NB9E-GT
Granville Pro/LP
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
July 2008
January 2011
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
575 / 675 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1508 Million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
800
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
27.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
10
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A