AMD Radeon HD 8830M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8830M and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	575 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8830M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8830M	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5106
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5106
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	11302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	11302
PassMark - G2D Mark		367
PassMark - G3D Mark		129

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8830M	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Venus	MCP79MX
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	434	431
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	575 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	575 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	210 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		40 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0