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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB

Intro

The GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) comes with a GPU clock speed of 450 MHz, and the 128 MB of DDR2 RAM runs at 400 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 8 SPUs, 4 TAUs, and 2 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, which has core clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 40 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 84 Watts
Difference: 44 Watts (110%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should in theory be much faster than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 38400 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 32000 (500%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be much (more or less 1367%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 26400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 1800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24600 (1367%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) 900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5700 (633%)

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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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2007 May 2008
Code Name G86 G92
Memory 128 MB 1536 MB
Core Speed 450 MHz 550 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 84 watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 38400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 1800 Mtexels/sec 26400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 900 Mpixels/sec 6600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8 96
Texture Mapping Units 4 48
Render Output Units 2 12
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 65 nm
Transistors 210 million 754 million
Bus PCI Express x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a 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 worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)

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GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB

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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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