NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +15986%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

1024

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

14.69 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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