GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the Nvidia Titan X, which features a clock frequency of 1417 MHz and a GDDR5X memory speed of 1251 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It features 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (525%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 485120 (7580%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is much (more or less 17534%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 315608 (17534%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 135132 (15015%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.