GeForce 8300 and Radeon HD 6290 IGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8300
Radeon HD 6290 IGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
C78
Loveland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2011
Interface
PCI
IGP
Core clock speed
500 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
450 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
80
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
9 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
3.200
Memory type
System Shared
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
System Shared
Memory bus width
System Shared
System Shared
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A