NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile vs AMD Stream Processor

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile and AMD Stream Processor videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile

AMD Stream Processor

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile

7.2x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 165 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 165 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Stream Processor

Around 32% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 450 MHz
5.3x more texture fill rate: 9.5 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 62% higher memory clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.5 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1296 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile	AMD Stream Processor
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R500
Code name	G72	R580
Launch date	18 January 2006	1 January 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	594 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	9.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	165 Watt
Transistor count	112 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	41.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1296 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3