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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon HD 7970
IntroThe GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) has a core clock frequency of 450 MHz and a DDR2 memory speed of 400 MHz. It also features a 64-bit bus, and uses a 80 nm design. It is made up of 8 SPUs, 4 Texture Address Units, and 2 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7970, which comes with a clock speed of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1375 MHz. It also features a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthIn theory, the Radeon HD 7970 should be a lot faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon HD 7970 is much (approximately 6478%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)
Pixel RateThe Radeon HD 7970 is a lot (more or less 3189%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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2 Responses to “GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon HD 7970”hmm, i think i might go for the geforce 8300 gs on this one.
No fucking way, the geforce 9600 gt 1 gb, is way better than the radeon hd 7970!