NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G vs ATI Radeon 9600 TX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G and ATI Radeon 9600 TX 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

ATI Radeon 9600 TX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 297 MHz
Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 540 MHz
4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 85 vs 18
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 242 vs 138

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2008 vs 7 October 2003
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 297 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 540 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	85 vs 18
PassMark - G2D Mark	242 vs 138

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 TX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

242

138

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G	ATI Radeon 9600 TX
PassMark - G3D Mark	85	18
PassMark - G2D Mark	242	138
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	778

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G	ATI Radeon 9600 TX
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 8
Code name	G86	R300
Launch date	1 February 2008	7 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1210	1213
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	297 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	2.376 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	110 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		Floppy
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	8.64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	540 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