NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE vs ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE and ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 525 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 2.1 GTexel / s

Launch date	1 June 2008 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 525 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s vs 2.1 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI

5x more pipelines: 40 vs 8
2x better floating-point performance: 42 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB

Pipelines	40 vs 8
Floating-point performance	42 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE	ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	95
PassMark - G2D Mark	37
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	10.49
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	620
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	620

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE	ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G98	RV610
Launch date	1 June 2008	28 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$22.99
Place in performance rating	1693	not rated
Price now	$22.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	5.67
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	525 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops	42 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	8	40
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	2.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	210 million	180 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		20 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2