GeForce 8300: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8300 sales 17 April 2007. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 40 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 8300: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | C78 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 17 April 2007 (17 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 8300's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8300's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 40 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.000 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.048 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8300 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCI | |
| Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8300: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8300. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 8300, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8300. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Send your test results of GeForce 8300.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8300 is Radeon HD 4550.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 8300 according to our statistics.
