ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 40 Watt
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 284 vs 129
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 284 vs 129

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 367 vs 362
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 367 vs 362

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
284
129
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
362
367
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G3D Mark 284 129
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 367

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name M96 MCP79MX
Launch date 7 January 2010 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 432 434
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 320
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 514 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type (G)DDR3
Shared memory 0