NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 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, 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 459 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 9.6 billion / sec vs 3.67 GTexel / s
12x more pipelines: 96 vs 8
15.7x better floating-point performance: 230.4 gflops vs 14.688 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 40 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 800 MHz
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 456 vs 115
5.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2623 vs 441
5.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2623 vs 441

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.6 billion / sec vs 3.67 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 8
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops vs 14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 40 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	456 vs 115
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2623 vs 441
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2623 vs 441

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 94

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 94

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

456

115

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2623

441

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2623

441

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M	NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	456	115
PassMark - G2D Mark	94	111
Geekbench - OpenCL	1879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	5.099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	131.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	8.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2623	441
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2623	441

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M	NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G86
Launch date	5 January 2011	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1541	1543
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	459 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops	14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	96	8
Texture fill rate	9.6 billion / sec	3.67 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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