GeForce 8300 and Radeon HD 3550 - video card comparison
GeForce 8300
Radeon HD 3550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
C78
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2008
Interface
PCI
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
594 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
40
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
2.376
Memory type
System Shared
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
System Shared
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
6.336 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A