GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 950M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950M, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 914 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 950M should be 400% quicker than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (400%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M should be much (about 1931%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34760 (1931%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950M is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13724 (1525%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.