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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

The GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) comes with core speeds of 450 MHz on the GPU, and 400 MHz on the 128 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 8 SPUs along with 4 TAUs and 2 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has a core clock frequency of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 40 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2 500 Watts
Difference: 460 Watts (1150%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 640000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 633600 (9900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is much (about 19808%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 356536 (19808%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 129404 (14378%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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Radeon R9 295X2

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) Radeon R9 295X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2007 April 2014
Code Name G86 Vesuvius
Memory 128 MB 4096 MB (x2)
Core Speed 450 MHz 1018 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 800 MHz 5000 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 500 watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 640000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 358336 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 130304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8 2816 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 4 176 (x2)
Render Output Units 2 64 (x2)
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 512-bit (x2)
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 210 million 6200 million
Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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Radeon R9 295X2

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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.

Comments

9 Responses to “GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R9 295X2”
Xethere says:

AHGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LoL

Azis says:

Wtf, dx 10? shaders 4.0???
but srsly, i was just curious; 19808% faster at af lool

ralph says:

Really? Just, really? Direct x10 card with 128mb of ddr2 memory clocked at 6400mb/s, lets all agree and call this an anti bf4 card

TheBcoolGuy says:

8300 for the win! The 295X2 sucks, it can't run the latest, most intense games like Minesweeper. Pathetic.

RandomName says:

I can't believe people actually looked up the top and the bottom of the list lol. This match up made me laugh! Hahaha!

ThisGuy says:

I kinda feel bad for the 8300 GS...

harry says:

This means ATI > nVidia

Brock says:

nvidia sucks everywhere, AMD is king of gaming world...

Anonymous says:

look at the price comparison section they said 8300gs is priceless

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