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NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

Enhanced 8400M GS chip, which is manufactured in 65nm and shows slightly better performance due to a few minor optimizations. The technical data correspond to the 8400M GS chip.

A particularity of the graphic card are the "Unified Shaders" or ALUs (Arithmetic Logical Unit). There don't exist any dedicated pixel- or vertex shaders but 16 so called stream processors make the graphic tasks. The advantage is that theoretically there don't exist idle time of the ALUs. The NVIDIA stream processors are 1-dimensional (1D) and are able to accomplish one skalar operation with one MADD-operation (addition and multiplication). Moreover, NVIDIA clocks the shader ALUs somewhat higher than the rest of the chip.

An advantage of the GeForce 9000 series is the integrated PureVideo HD videoprocessor. It helps with the decoding of H.264-, VC-1-, MPEG2- and WMV9 video material in HD quality and therefore reduces the CPU load.

Probably, the memory clock of the GeForce 9300M G depends on the used memory type: 400 MHz with GDDR2 and 600 MHz with GDDR3 were used in 8400M cards.

 

ManufacturerNVIDIA
SeriesGeForce 9000M
CodenameNB9M-GS1
Pipelines16 - unified
Core Speed *400 MHz
Shader Speed *800 MHz
Memory Speed *600 MHz
Memory Bus Width64 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR2 / GDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory256 MB
Shared Memoryno
TurboCache
DirectXDirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Transistors210 Million
technology80 nm
Features800 MHZ Shader-clock frequence, PureVideo technology (H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, WMV9 decoder acceleration), HDCP-capable, PowerMizer 7.0 energy management (dynamic switching between performance and energy saving), HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting), designed for Windows Vista, 16x full screen AA, 16x AF depending on the angle, 128-bit HDR illumination with AA, PCI-E 16x, OpenGL 2.1, Gigathread technology
Notebook Sizesmall and light
Date of Announcement01.02.2008
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_930...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 12740, avg: 13733, max: 14725 Points
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3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 3070, avg: 5241, max: 6500 Points
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3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
      min: 3204, avg: 3252, max: 3300 Points
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3DMark 06:
0% 100%
      min: 1665, avg: 1958, max: 2251 Points
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 2361, avg: 2361, max: 2361 Points
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 11 benchmarks

Game Benchmarks

Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
24.7  fps
med.:
9  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
21.6  fps
med.:
8.6  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
World in Conflict - Benchmark
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
med.:
10  fps
high:
5  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
289  fps
med.:
57  fps
high:
12  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
low:
95.7  fps
med.:
96.1  fps
high:
65.2  fps
ultra:
37.5  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.

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Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2009-09-24)