AMD Radeon R7 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce 8300 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
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
10.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 329

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	31 May 2016 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358 vs 329

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300

2.5x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 200 MHz
5.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 329 vs 60

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	329 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

329

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

329

Name	AMD Radeon R7 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
Geekbench - OpenCL	22612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	206.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	24.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	85.46
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1979
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358	329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	33.5
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	33.9
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	60	329
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1457
PassMark - G3D Mark		102
PassMark - G2D Mark		168

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Wani	C78
Launch date	31 May 2016	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1433	1414
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$22.68
Value for money (0-100)		5.26
Technical info
Boost clock speed	758 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	526.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	16.46 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	2,410 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCI
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Memory type	System Shared