NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +15686%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

14.69 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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