NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (13W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9300M GS

0.022 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +4554%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300M GS

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 9M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-I

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

11.20GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

640

4

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

2.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

22.40 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

13W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

Heathrow

NB9M-GS

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

86 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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