The GeForce 9300 and 9400 are similar in many ways to the GeForce 8200/8300 from the AMD world, but obviously since we're talking about non-Nehalem Intel platforms they do have a few changes like the inclusion of a memory controller. Like their AMD counterparts however, the
GeForce 9300/9400 are single-chip solutions and unlike the 8200/8300 they are built on a smaller 65nm manufacturing process.GeForce 9300 boards should be selling for around
$100 on average. While the 80nm GeForce 8200 and 8300 featured 8 SPs, the GeForce 9300 and 9400 have twice that: 16 stream processors. The only difference between the 9300 and 9400 are clock speeds (
450MHz/1.2GHz vs.
580MHz/1.4GHz). And just as we saw with the GeForce 8200/8300, we had no problems overclocking our GeForce 9300 to 9400 clock speeds. The 9300 will be the chipset to look at, the 9400 is simply a way of getting more money out of the consumer.
nVidia can finally offer 780G-like performance with the GeForce 9300, and in some cases significantly outperform it. The G45 comparison doesn't even make sense to mention here, nVidia is beyond significantly faster in most cases. We finally have a reasonable integrated graphics solution for Intel processors. Motherboards based on the GeForce 9300 chipset are available starting today. We tested two boards in-house: the
Asus P5NA-VM and the
MSI P7NGM.
The Blu-ray decode quality of the GeForce 9300 is identical to the GeForce 8200, which in turn is identical to the G45 and AMD's 780G - as you'd expect.
We've also got full hardware decode for MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264 on the GPU itself which results in very low CPU utilization numbers while playing back Blu-ray and other supported HD content.
Recenzije MCP7 ploča:
Zotac GeForce 9300 i
ECS GF9300TA
Izvor:
AnandTech,
Guru3D i
Bit-Tech