NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 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 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 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 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 97 vs 78
5.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 571 vs 111
5.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 571 vs 111

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	97 vs 78
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571 vs 111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571 vs 111

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 41 vs 17

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	41 vs 17

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

111

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

111

Name	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	97	78
PassMark - G2D Mark	17	41
Geekbench - OpenCL	2440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571	111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571	111

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	MCP7A-ION	G72
Launch date	3 June 2008	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1689	1687
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$32
Price now		$32
Value for money (0-100)		2.25
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	282 million	112 million
Texture fill rate		2.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 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		5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		666 MHz
Memory type		DDR2