NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs AMD FireStream 9350
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 150W)
AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8300 GS
0.015 TFLOPS
FireStream 9350
+13340%
2.016 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
18
1
SM Count
-
8
Shading Units
1440
8
TMUs
72
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
14.69 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
403.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
