NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA ION

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 24 Watt
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 571 vs 244
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 571 vs 244

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 15 May 2006
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 24 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571 vs 244
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571 vs 244

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 137 vs 84
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 31 vs 18

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	137 vs 84
PassMark - G2D Mark	31 vs 18

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA ION
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

137

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

244

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

244

Name	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	84	137
PassMark - G2D Mark	18	31
Geekbench - OpenCL	2440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571	244
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571	244

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	MCP7A-ION	G73
Launch date	3 June 2008	15 May 2006
Place in performance rating	1691	1688
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$149.99
Price now		$149.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.94
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	24 Watt
Transistor count	282 million	177 million
Texture fill rate		2.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		650 MHz
Memory type		DDR2