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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

The GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) features a GPU clock speed of 450 MHz, and the 128 MB of DDR2 memory is set to run at 400 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 8 Stream Processors, 4 Texture Address Units, and 2 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M385X, which features core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M385X should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 96000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 89600 (1400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X will be much (more or less 3322%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 59800 (3322%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X will be quite a bit (more or less 1856%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16700 (1856%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) Radeon R9 M385X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2007 2015
Code Name G86 Bonaire
Memory 128 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 450 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8 896
Texture Mapping Units 4 56
Render Output Units 2 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 210 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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Radeon R9 M385X

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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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