NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 27% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 80 vs 27
  • 5.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 620 vs 111
  • 5.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 620 vs 111
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 June 2008 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed 540 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 80 vs 27
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 620 vs 111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 620 vs 111

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100

  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 44 vs 38
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 44 vs 38

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
80
27
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
38
44
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
620
111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
620
111
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE NVIDIA GeForce 6100
PassMark - G3D Mark 80 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 38 44
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) 620 111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 620 111

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE NVIDIA GeForce 6100

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Curie
Code name G98 C51
Launch date 1 June 2008 11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $22.99
Place in performance rating 1692 1689
Price now $22.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 5.67

Technical info

Core clock speed 540 MHz 425 MHz
Floating-point performance 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 8
Texture fill rate 4.32 GTexel / s
Transistor count 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2