NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 286W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +7900%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

14.69 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

286W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

R700

-

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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