HD Graphics 12EU vs GeForce 9300 GE

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1370not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 5.75 (2010)
GPU code nameG98Ironlake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 June 2008 (16 years ago)10 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$22.99 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores896
Core clock speed540 MHz533 MHz
Number of transistors210 million177 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate4.3206.396
Floating-point processing power0.0208 TFLOPS0.1023 TFLOPS
ROPs42
TMUs812

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16QPI
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAMotherboard Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2008 10 January 2010
Chip lithography 65 nm 45 nm

HD Graphics 12EU has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 44.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9300 GE and HD Graphics 12EU. We've got no test results to judge.


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