9500M G vs 305M

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGT2xx (2009−2012)G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code namen11m-lp1NB9P
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years old)3 June 2008 (15 years old)
Current price$163 $1279

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1616
CUDA cores1616
Core clock speed525 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors260 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate4.2004.000
Floating-point performance36.8 gflops40 gflops
Gigaflops5560

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 305M and GeForce 9500M G compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsDisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+no data
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA++

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GeForce 305M 150
+24%
9500M G 121

305M outperforms 9500M G by 24% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 10 January 2010 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 20 Watt

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