AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +11640%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce 8300 GS

0.015 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce 8300 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1024

Shading Units

8

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.69 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G86

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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