NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 337 MHz
  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 130 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 23% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 486 MHz
  • 3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 85 vs 25
  • Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 242 vs 137
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2008 vs 13 February 2004
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 337 MHz
Texture fill rate 3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.348 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 600 MHz vs 486 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 85 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 242 vs 137

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
85
25
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
242
137
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo
PassMark - G3D Mark 85 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 242 137
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 778

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO Turbo

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Rage 8
Code name G86 M10
Launch date 1 February 2008 13 February 2004
Place in performance rating 1175 1176
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 800 MHz 337 MHz
CUDA cores 16
Floating-point performance 25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 3.2 GTexel / s 1.348 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 13 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 76 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 9.6 GB / s 7.78 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 600 MHz 486 MHz
Memory type GDDR2 / GDDR3 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0