GeForce 9300M GS GDDR3 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking876not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.26no data
Power efficiency2.23no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRedwoodG98
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 January 2010 (14 years ago)4 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$119 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores4008
Core clock speed775 MHz580 MHz
Number of transistors627 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)64 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate15.502.320
Floating-point processing power0.62 TFLOPS0.0232 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs204

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 x16MXM-I
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz702 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s11.23 GB/s

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 VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 January 2010 4 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 64 Watt 13 Watt

ATI HD 5670 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

9300M GS GDDR3, on the other hand, has 392.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5670 and GeForce 9300M GS GDDR3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5670 is a desktop card while GeForce 9300M GS GDDR3 is a notebook one.


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