GeForce 8300 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	141	not rated
Place by popularity	79	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	55.76	no data
Power efficiency	16.30	no data
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Navi 10	C78
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	21 January 2020 (4 years ago)	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$279	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2304	16
Core clock speed	1130 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	10,300 million	210 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	40 Watt
Texture fill rate	224.6	4.000
Floating-point processing power	7.188 TFLOPS	0.048 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	4
TMUs	144	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCI
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	192 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	6.5	4.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	21 January 2020	17 April 2007
Chip lithography	7 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	40 Watt

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