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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

The GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) makes use of a 80 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 450 MHz. The DDR2 RAM runs at a frequency of 400 MHz on this specific model. It features 8 SPUs along with 4 Texture Address Units and 2 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1015 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M375X, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 65600 (1025%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375X should be a lot (approximately 2156%) better at AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X 40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 38800 (2156%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X 16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15340 (1704%)

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 R9 M375X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2007 2015
Code Name G86 Cape Verde
Memory 128 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 450 MHz 1015 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 40600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 16240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8 640
Texture Mapping Units 4 40
Render Output Units 2 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 28 nm
Transistors 210 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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Radeon R9 M375X

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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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