NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE vs ATI Radeon X700 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE and ATI Radeon X700 SE 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 Radeon X700 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 35% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 400 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 82 vs 71

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2008 vs 1 April 2005
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	82 vs 71

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700 SE

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 348 vs 344

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	348 vs 344

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X700 SE

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

344

348

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE	ATI Radeon X700 SE
PassMark - G2D Mark	344	348
PassMark - G3D Mark	82	71

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE	ATI Radeon X700 SE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R400
Code name	G98	RV410
Launch date	1 June 2008	1 April 2005
Place in performance rating	472	470
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	210 million	120 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR