AMD Radeon HD 7310 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7310 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7310

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1230 vs 1053
  • Around 17% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1230 vs 1053
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 May 2012 vs 1 February 2008
Pipelines 80 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1230 vs 1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1230 vs 1053

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

  • Around 90% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 59 vs 44
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 134 vs 128
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 59 vs 44
PassMark - G3D Mark 134 vs 128

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7310
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
44
59
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
128
134
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1230
1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1230
1053
Name AMD Radeon HD 7310 NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
Geekbench - OpenCL 1780
PassMark - G2D Mark 44 59
PassMark - G3D Mark 128 134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1230 1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1230 1053

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7310 NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla
Code name Zacate G84
Launch date 1 May 2012 1 February 2008
Place in performance rating 1606 1603
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 80 32
CUDA cores 32
Floating-point performance 60.8 gflops
Texture fill rate 7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt
Transistor count 289 million

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 700 MHz
Memory type GDDR2 / GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized