GeForce 9800M GTX SLI and Radeon HD 6950M - video card comparison
GeForce 9800M GTX SLI
Radeon HD 6950M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
NB9E-GTX
Blackcomb Pro
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
July 2008
January 2011
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3016 Million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
224
960
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
115.2 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