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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R7 240

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 is made up of 8 Stream Processors, 4 TAUs, and 2 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which has GPU clock speed of 730 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240 30 Watts
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 40 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 240 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 240 28800 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 22400 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 should be a lot (about 711%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 240 14600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12800 (711%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 is quite a bit (about 549%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM), and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 240 5840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4940 (549%)

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 R7 240
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2007 October 2013
Code Name G86 Oland PRO
Memory 128 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 450 MHz 730 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 30 watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 14600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 5840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8 320
Texture Mapping Units 4 20
Render Output Units 2 8
Bus Type DDR2 DDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 210 million 1040 million
Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - 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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Radeon R7 240

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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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