GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 560, which features core speeds of 810 MHz on the GPU, and 1001 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (275%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 121728 (1902%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 will be a lot (about 2420%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43560 (2420%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is superior to the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25020 (2780%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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