GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce 940M

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce 940M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1072 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 940M should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (150%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 940M is much (more or less 1329%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23928 (1329%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 940M is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7676 (853%)

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

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.