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).

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

NVIDIA GeForce 6100

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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	1691	1688
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