NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 7600 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 27 Watt
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 747 vs 331
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 747 vs 331

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 June 2008 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 27 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	747 vs 331
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	747 vs 331

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 4.8 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 157 vs 94
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 42 vs 28

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	157 vs 94
PassMark - G2D Mark	42 vs 28

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

157

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

747

331

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

747

331

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	94	157
PassMark - G2D Mark	28	42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	747	331
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	747	331

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G98	G73
Launch date	4 June 2008	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1679	1682
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$84.99
Price now		$84.99
Value for money (0-100)		2.06
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	400 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	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	177 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	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA