NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +33106%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2014

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

1216 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

8

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

14.69 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

40W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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