NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE vs ATI FireGL V7350

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE and ATI FireGL V7350 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

ATI FireGL V7350

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	1 June 2008 vs 1 October 2005
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7350

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 540 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 63% higher memory clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 111 vs 82

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	111 vs 82

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7350

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

344

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE	ATI FireGL V7350
PassMark - G2D Mark	344	344
PassMark - G3D Mark	82	111

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE	ATI FireGL V7350
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R500
Code name	G98	R520
Launch date	1 June 2008	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	499	500
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,599
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	9.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	210 million	321 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		111 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	41.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1300 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3