GeForce 9300 GS: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 9300 GS provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.26% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9300 GS sales 1 June 2008 at a recommended price of $59.95 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.33 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 5.328 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 9300 GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1350 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G98 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 June 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $59.95 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 9300 GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9300 GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 8 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 567 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.536 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0224 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9300 GS and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9300 GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 333 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 5.328 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9300 GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 9300 GS, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9300 GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9300 GS is Radeon HD 6290, which is faster by 4% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
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