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NVIDIA GeForce 8300

The NVIDIA GeForce 8300 is a graphics card released on May 6, 2008 using a 80 nm process. It has 16 shading units, a boost clock of 500 MHz and a 40 W board power rating. It scores 102 in the PassMark G3D benchmark.

C7880 nm

4/10 key specs recorded · 15 facts

Depth: 19 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

16cores

Memory

n/a

Boost clock

n/a

500 MHz base

Board power

40 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce 8300 scores 102 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 17% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,402), measured across 62 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 168.

PassMark G3D Mark

102

Rank #2,402
Faster than 17% of 2,658 GPUs
62 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 2 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 1.9% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 8300 averages DirectX 9 2 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 62 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

First benchmarked 2009-04-02

Samples 62

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce 8300 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename C78

Chip Not recorded

Process node 80 nm

Transistors 210 M

Die size 127 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce 8300 uses the C78 graphics processor, is manufactured on a 80 nm process, contains 210 million transistors and has a die size of 127 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 16

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 8

Render output units (ROPs) 4

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 8300 has 16 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce 8300 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce 8300. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce 8300.