GeForce 9800M GTS and Radeon HD 6550M - video card comparison
GeForce 9800M GTS
Radeon HD 6550M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
NB9E-GT
Capilano-PRO
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
July 2008
November 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
480.0 gflops
Gigaflops
240
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
400
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.20
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A