Introducing nForce 730i: MSI P7NGM Digital Review & Overclocking - PAGE 2

Ok, so what does GeForce 9300 and 9400 support?

• Core 2, Pentium D, Pentium 4, Celeron D, Celeron support
• 1333MHz FSB
• Dual channel DDR2-800 or DDR3-1333
• DirectX 10 Support
• 16 stream processors (now "Graphics Cores")
• 3.6 Billion pixels per second texture fill rate
• 16x AA
• 400MHz RAMDAC's
• 128 bit HDR precision
• 2048x1536 maximum analog display resolution
• 2560x1600 maximum digital display resolution
• GeForce Boost (SLI with an 8500GT or 8400GS plugged in)
• HybridPower Technology on some motherboards
• PureVideo HD with full HD decode (1080i/p)
• 20 PCIe 2.0 lanes for one PCIe 16x slot and four PCIe 1x slots
• 6 SATA2 drives @ 3Gbps
• RAID 1,0,0+1,5 support
• Nvidia MediaShield
• 10mbps/100mbps/gigabit Ethernet
• 12 USB ports
• up to five PCIe slots
• HDA audio with 7.1 LPCM

The GeForce 9300 has a 450MHz core clock with 1200MHz shader clock

The GeForce 9400 hasa 580MHz core clock with 1400MHz shader clock

Yes, that is the only difference between the 9300 and the 9400 parts.

Here are a couple of slides describing Hybrid SLI - otherwise knownas GeForce Boost.

Basically you can add a GeForce 8400 or 8500 based GPU and it will SLI with the GeForce 9300 on the motherboard to boost graphics performance up tp 70% for titles that support SLI - mind you, very few titles will see a boost anywhere near that.

Another possible interesting use for the on-board GPU when using a better video card is to use it for PhysX - running the physics calculations on the IGP instead of the main CPU.

I like all the video outputs on this board.

The next two slides talk about PureVideo improving upscaling - it does, I have an Nvidia GPU in my home theatre and it upscales DVD's quite nicely. However, as far as selling points go, it's true enough that the IGP on this board is up to 5x faster than an Intel G31, but that's not much to brag about - most games when run on an Intel IGP closely resemble slide-shows at this time.