ATI 3D Rage PRO Turbo vs GeForce 8300

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)no data
GPU code nameC78Rage Pro Turbo
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)1 March 1997 (27 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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16no data
Core clock speed500 MHz75 MHz
Number of transistors210 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.0000.08
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs81

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).

InterfacePCIAGP 2x
WidthIGP1-slot

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 typeSystem SharedSDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared75 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data600 MB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)6.0
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.1
OpenCLN/ANone
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 1 March 1997
Chip lithography 80 nm 350 nm

GeForce 8300 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 337.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8300 and 3D Rage PRO Turbo. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8300
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