AMD Radeon HD 8280E vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8280E and NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8280E

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8280E

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 40 Watt
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 256 vs 115

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	256 vs 115

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 459 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 81

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	459 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 81

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8280E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

256

115

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	256	115
PassMark - G2D Mark	81	111
Geekbench - OpenCL	1210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		441
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		441

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Kalindi	G86
Launch date	23 April 2013	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1552	1549
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	459 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		14.688 gflops
Pipelines		8
Texture fill rate		3.67 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2