Quadro FX 500 vs GeForce 8300

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1446	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.46	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	C78	NV34 A1
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	6 May 2008 (18 years ago)	21 May 2003 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	no data
Core clock speed	500 MHz	270 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	45 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	4.000	1.080
Floating-point processing power	0.048 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCI	AGP 8x
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	System Shared	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	128 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	240 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	7.68 GB/s
Shared memory	+	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	9.0a
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	6 May 2008	21 May 2003
Chip lithography	80 nm	150 nm