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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

The GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) comes with a clock frequency of 450 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 400 MHz. It also features a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 80 nm design. It is comprised of 8 SPUs, 4 Texture Address Units, and 2 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5830, which comes with GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1120(224x5) Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 40 Watts
Radeon HD 5830 175 Watts
Difference: 135 Watts (338%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5830 will be 1900% faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 128000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 121600 (1900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5830 is much (approximately 2389%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 44800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 43000 (2389%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5830 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 11900 (1322%)

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 HD 5830
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2007 February 25, 2010
Code Name G86 Cypress LE
Memory 128 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 450 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 44800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 12800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8 1120(224x5)
Texture Mapping Units 4 56
Render Output Units 2 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 40 nm
Transistors 210 million 2154 million
Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 number of 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 better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could 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 clock speed. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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Radeon HD 5830

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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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