GeForce 8300 GS vs Radeon R9 390 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1330
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.51
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGrenadaG86
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 September 2015 (9 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 no data

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 cores25608
Core clock speed1000 MHz459 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate160.03.672
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS0.01469 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs1608

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width3-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width512 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/s6.4 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.34.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2015 17 April 2007
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 40 Watt

R9 390 X2 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

8300 GS, on the other hand, has 1350% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390 X2 and GeForce 8300 GS. We've got no test results to judge.


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