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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

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	465	467
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