GeForce 810M vs GeForce 9800 GT 1GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB, which makes use of a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 600 MHz. The GDDR3 memory runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 112 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (600%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 810M in general. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB will be quite a bit (more or less 469%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27696 (469%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB is much (more or less 225%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 810M, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6648 (225%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.