In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE are massively better than the Intel 865G.

The GeForce 7300 LE was released over a year more recently than the 865G, and so the GeForce 7300 LE is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the 865G.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The GeForce 7300 LE has 240 MB more video memory than the 865G, so is likely to be slightly better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the GeForce 7300 LE also has superior memory performance overall.

The GeForce 7300 LE has 5.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the 865G, which means that the memory performance of the GeForce 7300 LE is marginally better than the 865G.

The GeForce 7300 LE has 8 Shader Processing Units but the 865G does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.

The 865G requires 13 Watts to run and the GeForce 7300 LE requires 23 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 350 Watts for the GeForce 7300 LE, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the 865G. The GeForce 7300 LE requires 10 Watts more than the 865G to run. The difference is not significant enough for the GeForce 7300 LE to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the 865G.