GeForce 8200 vs FirePro D300

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro D300 with GeForce 8200, including specs and performance data.

FirePro D300
2014
2 GB GDDR5, 150 Watt
10.20
+2450%

D300 outperforms 8200 by a whopping 2450% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking4441254
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.660.69
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code namePitcairnC78
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128016
Core clock speed850 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate68.004.000
Floating-point processing power2.176 TFLOPS0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs808

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length242 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1270 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth162.6 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 10.20 0.40
Recency 18 January 2014 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 40 Watt

FirePro D300 has a 2450% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 8200, on the other hand, has 275% lower power consumption.

The FirePro D300 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 8200 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro D300 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 8200 is a desktop one.


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