XGI Volari 8300 vs GeForce GTX 470M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking624not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.66no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGF104XG47
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 September 2010 (14 years ago)1 November 2005 (19 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 cores288no data
Core clock speed535 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million90 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate25.682.400
Floating-point processing power0.6163 TFLOPSno data
ROPs244
TMUs488

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB128 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidth60.0 GB/s4.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API9.0c
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.52.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2010 1 November 2005
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

GTX 470M has an age advantage of 4 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 470M and XGI Volari 8300. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 470M is a notebook card while XGI Volari 8300 is a desktop one.


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