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).

 

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: 460 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 460 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
460
115
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
94
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 460 115
PassMark - G2D Mark 94 111
Geekbench - OpenCL 1864
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
Optimus