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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

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

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which has a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1026 MHz. It also features a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 192 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 40 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
Difference: 76 Watts (190%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is 1439% quicker than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 92096 (1439%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be much (approximately 1500%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 27000 (1500%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is superior to the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 20700 (2300%)

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) GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2007 March 2011
Code Name G86 GF116
Memory 128 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 450 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 4104 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 116 watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 98496 MB/sec
Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 28800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 21600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8 192
Texture Mapping Units 4 32
Render Output Units 2 24
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 40 nm
Transistors 210 million 1170 million
Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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

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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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