NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI 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 49W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (9.600GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
88 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8300 GS
0.015 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 430 PCI
+1693%
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
1
SM Count
2
8
Shading Units
96
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
14.69 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
49W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GF108
-
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
