NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| C79 | GPU Name | G86 |
| GF-9300-730i-B2 | Model number | G86-300-A2 |
| Tesla | Architecture | Tesla |
| 65 nm | Process Size | 80 nm |
| 314 million | Transistors | 210 million |
| 144 mm² | Die Size | 127 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Apr 17th, 2007 | Release Date | Apr 17th, 2007 |
| GeForce 9 IGP | Family | GeForce 8 (8500) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| GeForce 8 IGP | Predecessor | GeForce 7 PCIe |
| PCI | Bus Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Memory
| System Shared | Memory Size | 256 MB |
| System Shared | Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| System Shared | Memory Bus | 128 bit |
| System Dependent | Bandwidth | 12.80 GB/s |
Performance
| 1.800 GPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 1.836 GPixel/s |
| 3.600 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 3.672 GTexel/s |
| 35.20 GFLOPS | FP32 (float) performance | 29.38 GFLOPS |
Clock Speeds
| System Shared | Memory Clock | 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective |
| 450 MHz | GPU Clock | 459 MHz |
Render Config
| 16 | Shading Units | 16 |
| 8 | TMUs | 8 |
| 4 | ROPs | 4 |
| 2 | SM Count | 2 |
Board Design
| IGP | Slot Width | Single-slot |
| 40 W | Thermal design power (TDP) | 30 W |
| 1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video | Display Connectors | 1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video |
API support
| 11.1 (10_0) | DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) |
| 3.3 | OpenGL | 3.3 |
| N/A | OpenCL | 1.1 |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| 4.0 | Shader Model | 4.0 |