GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with core clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 560 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 108288 (1692%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (approximately 4078%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 73400 (4078%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17900 (1989%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.