AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M470X 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
25.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3244 vs 129
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 426 vs 367

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2016 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3244 vs 129
PassMark - G2D Mark	426 vs 367

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M470X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3244

129

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

426

367

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M470X	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G3D Mark	3244	129
PassMark - G2D Mark	426	367
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
Geekbench - OpenCL	57109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M470X	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Strato	MCP79MX
Launch date	15 May 2016	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	469	467
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,971 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	896
Texture fill rate	61.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,080 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	large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
DirectCompute 5.0