ATI Radeon HD 5530 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5530 and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 5530

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5530

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 589 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 5.2 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16
2.3x better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 666 MHz

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
Pipelines	80 vs 16
Floating-point performance	104 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 666 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5530	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Cedar	GT218
Launch date	17 March 2011	12 March 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	589 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	16
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	4.71 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2