Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs GeForce 9300M GS

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1354not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.37no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameG98Polaris 20
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2008 (16 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)

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 cores82304
Core clock speed550 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1077 MHz
Number of transistors210 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate4.400155.1
Floating-point processing power0.0224 TFLOPS4.963 TFLOPS
Gigaflops34no data
ROPs432
TMUs8144

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-IMXM-B (3.0)

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2008 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 100 Watt

9300M GS has 669.2% lower power consumption.

RX 580X Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9300M GS and Radeon RX 580X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
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