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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon HD 7970

Intro

The GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) has clock speeds of 450 MHz on the GPU, and 400 MHz on the 128 MB of DDR2 memory. It features 8 SPUs as well as 4 Texture Address Units and 2 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7970, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs Hide Graphs Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks Power Consumption (Max TDP ) GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 40 Watts Radeon HD 7970 250 Watts Difference: 210 Watts (525%) Memory Bandwidth Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7970 should be much faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain) Radeon HD 7970 264000 MB/sec GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec Difference: 257600 (4025%) Texel Rate The Radeon HD 7970 is much (about 6478%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). ( The Radeon HD 7970 is much (about 6478%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). ( explain Radeon HD 7970 118400 Mtexels/sec GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec Difference: 116600 (6478%) Pixel Rate If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7970 is the winner, and very much so. ( If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7970 is the winner, and very much so. ( explain Radeon HD 7970 29600 Mpixels/sec GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec Difference: 28700 (3189%) Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Display Specifications Hide Specifications Model GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) Radeon HD 7970 Manufacturer nVidia AMD Year July 2007 January 2012 Code Name G86 Tahiti XT Memory 128 MB 3072 MB Core Speed 450 MHz 925 MHz Memory Speed 800 MHz 5500 MHz Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 250 watts Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 264000 MB/sec Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 118400 Mtexels/sec Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 29600 Mpixels/sec Unified Shaders 8 2048 Texture Mapping Units 4 128 Render Output Units 2 32 Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5 Bus Width 64-bit 384-bit Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm Transistors 210 million 4313 million Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe 3.0 x16 DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.1 OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.