Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce 8300 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
888 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
+13040%
1971
GeForce 8300 GS
15
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Apr 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
896
Shading Units
8
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.69 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
115W
TDP
40W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
G86
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0