NVIDIA GeForce 820M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 820M 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, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 820M

NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 820M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 62% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 490 vs 102
10.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 329
10.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 329

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 March 2015 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	490 vs 102
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3349 vs 329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349 vs 329

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 45 Watt
Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 114

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	168 vs 114

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 820M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

490

102

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

114

168

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3349

329

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3349

329

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 820M	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
PassMark - G3D Mark	490	102
PassMark - G2D Mark	114	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	2789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	161.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.686
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.257
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	22.768
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1195
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1447
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3349	329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1195
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1447
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349	329
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	847

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 820M	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK107	C78
Launch date	21 March 2015	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1444	1443
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Price now		$22.68
Value for money (0-100)		5.26
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1802 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus
Verde Drivers