NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 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: 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 GT 630

NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 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: 40 nm vs 80 nm
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 681 vs 102
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 168
6.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2073 vs 329
6.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2073 vs 329

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2012 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	681 vs 102
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2073 vs 329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2073 vs 329

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300

Around 63% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 65 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

681

102

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

168

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2073

329

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2073

329

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
PassMark - G3D Mark	681	102
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	168
Geekbench - OpenCL	2473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	140.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.502
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	12.49
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1853
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2073	329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1853
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2073	329
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	170

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	C78
Launch date	15 May 2012	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$99.99
Place in performance rating	1440	1443
Price now	$99.21	$22.68
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	8.89	5.26
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	311.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	12.96 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3