AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 7.09 GTexel / s vs 4.54 GTexel / s
40x more pipelines: 320 vs 8
12.7x better floating-point performance: 283.52 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 337 vs 102
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 136 vs 80

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 June 2011 vs 1 June 2008
Texture fill rate	7.09 GTexel / s vs 4.54 GTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 8
Floating-point performance	283.52 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	337 vs 102
PassMark - G2D Mark	136 vs 80

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

Around 28% higher core clock speed: 567 MHz vs 443 MHz

Core clock speed	567 MHz vs 443 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

337

102

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

136

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	337	102
PassMark - G2D Mark	136	80
Geekbench - OpenCL	876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	733
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	733
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1104
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1104
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1614

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6530D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	BeaverCreek	G98
Launch date	20 June 2011	1 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1467	1470
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$59.95
Price now		$59.95
Value for money (0-100)		1.99
Technical info
Core clock speed	443 MHz	567 MHz
Floating-point performance	283.52 gflops	22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	320	8
Texture fill rate	7.09 GTexel / s	4.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,450 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Memory type	System Shared	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		666 MHz