GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i vs ATI Radeon 9500 PRO

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1503not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameR300C79
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2002 (22 years ago)18 June 2008 (17 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 coresno data16
Core clock speed275 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors110 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data40 Watt
Texture fill rate2.2003.600
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs88

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCI
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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed270 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8.64 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2002 18 June 2008
Chip lithography 150 nm 65 nm

9300 + nForce 730i has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 130.8% more advanced lithography process.

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