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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 980M
IntroThe GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) features a GPU core 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 GeForce GTX 980M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1038 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthThe GeForce GTX 980M should in theory be much faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 980M will be quite a bit (more or less 5436%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980M is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 applied in one second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.
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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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