NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

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

Main Differences

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

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +15986%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 8300 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

1024

Shading Units

8

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.69 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G86

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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