GeForce 8300 and Neptune - video card comparison

GeForce 8300

Neptune

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

C78

Neptune

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

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Interface

PCI

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Core clock speed

500 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

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Texture fill rate

4.000

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Memory type

System Shared

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Maximum RAM amount

System Shared

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Memory bus width

System Shared

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Memory clock speed

System Shared

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170