NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 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 GS

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 4.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 77% lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 100 vs 79
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 747 vs 277
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 747 vs 277
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 June 2008 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed 550 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 4.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 13 Watt vs 23 Watt
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 100 vs 79
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 747 vs 277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 747 vs 277

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

  • Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 47 vs 26
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 47 vs 26

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
100
79
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
26
47
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
747
277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
747
277
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 100 79
PassMark - G2D Mark 26 47
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 747 277
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 747 277

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Curie
Code name G98 G72
Launch date 4 June 2008 18 January 2006
Place in performance rating 1679 1676
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz 450 MHz
CUDA cores 8
Floating-point performance 22.4 gflops
Gigaflops 34
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 8
Texture fill rate 4.4 GTexel / s 1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 13 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 112 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-I PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA