NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +22000%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

VS

Radeon HD 8950 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

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

1792

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

14.69 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

352 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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