NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G72 G98
GPU variant GF-7300GS-N-A3 —
Architecture Curie Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 112 million 210 million
Die size 81 mm² 86 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 18th, 2006 Dec 4th, 2007
Generation GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 42 in our database 10 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 6 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 8 GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 450 MHz 540 MHz
Memory clock 266 MHz 532 Mbps effective 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective
Shader clock — 1300 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 DDR2
Memory bus width 64 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 4.256 GB/s 8.000 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 —
Vertex shaders 3 —
TMUs 4 4
ROPs 2 4
Shading units — 8
SM count — 1
Cache L2 — 16 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 900.0 MPixel/s 2.160 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 337.5 MVertices/s —
Texture rate 1.800 GTexel/s 2.160 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance — 20.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 23 W 25 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P381 P561

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL — 1.1
Vulkan — —
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA — 1.1

Other Features

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