NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2 and AMD Radeon HD 6990 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

AMD Radeon HD 6990

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990

Around 41% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 589 MHz
59.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.71 GTexel / s
192x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 16
113.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
16x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
7.5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Core clock speed	830 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.71 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 16
Floating-point performance	2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 666 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6990

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2	AMD Radeon HD 6990
PassMark - G3D Mark		3013
PassMark - G2D Mark		630
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		17.264
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		840.452
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		53.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		265.302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2	AMD Radeon HD 6990
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 3
Code name	GT218	Antilles
Launch date	12 March 2011	8 March 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	626
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$159.99
Value for money (0-100)		27.81
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	830 MHz
Floating-point performance	44.86 gflops	2x 2,549.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	16	2x 1536
Texture fill rate	4.71 GTexel / s	2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count	260 million	2,640 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		375 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		295 mm
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	2x 2 GB
Memory bandwidth	5.33 GB / s	2x 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	666 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR5