AMD Radeon R4 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R4 Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 74% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 459 MHz
  • Around 74% higher texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 3.67 GTexel / s
  • 16x more pipelines: 128 vs 8
  • 13.9x better floating-point performance: 204.8 gflops vs 14.688 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 40 Watt
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 335 vs 115
  • 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1811 vs 441
  • 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1811 vs 441
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 11 June 2014 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate 6.4 GTexel / s vs 3.67 GTexel / s
Pipelines 128 vs 8
Floating-point performance 204.8 gflops vs 14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 335 vs 115
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1811 vs 441
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1811 vs 441

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 99
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 111 vs 99

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
335
115
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
99
111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1811
441
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1811
441
Name AMD Radeon R4 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 335 115
PassMark - G2D Mark 99 111
Geekbench - OpenCL 8386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 107.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 13.097
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 701
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1811 441
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 701
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1811 441

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R4 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla
Code name Beema G86
Launch date 11 June 2014 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1542 1537
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 800 MHz 459 MHz
Floating-point performance 204.8 gflops 14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 128 8
Texture fill rate 6.4 GTexel / s 3.67 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 930 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Memory type System Shared DDR2
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz