NVIDIA GeForce 8300 vs ATI Radeon 7200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8300 and ATI Radeon 7200 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 3.5x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 143 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 180 nm
  • 34x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 102 vs 3
  • Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 94
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 April 2007 vs 1 June 2000
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 143 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 102 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 168 vs 94

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7200

  • Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 40 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 40 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8300
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7200

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
102
3
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
168
94
Name NVIDIA GeForce 8300 ATI Radeon 7200
PassMark - G3D Mark 102 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 168 94
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 329

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 ATI Radeon 7200

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Rage 6
Code name C78 R100
Launch date 17 April 2007 1 June 2000
Place in performance rating 1414 1415
Price now $22.68
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 5.26

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 143 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 180 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 30 million
Texture fill rate 996 MTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCI AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 7.0
OpenGL 3.3 1.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 MB
Memory bandwidth 5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 143 MHz
Memory type DDR