Radeon RX 6650M XT vs GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated84
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.30
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameC79Navi 23
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores162048
Core clock speed450 MHz2068 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2416 MHz
Number of transistors314 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate3.600309.2
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS9.896 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x8
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 120 Watt

9300 + nForce 730i has 200% lower power consumption.

RX 6650M XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i and Radeon RX 6650M XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i is a desktop card while Radeon RX 6650M XT is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
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AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT
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