AMD Radeon HD 8280E vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8280E and NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8280E

NVIDIA GeForce GT 620

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8280E

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 49 Watt

Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 15 May 2012
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 49 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 620

Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 377 vs 237
Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 159 vs 82
Around 28% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1544 vs 1210

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	377 vs 237
PassMark - G2D Mark	159 vs 82
Geekbench - OpenCL	1544 vs 1210

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8280E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 620

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

237

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

159

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1210

1544

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620
PassMark - G3D Mark	237	377
PassMark - G2D Mark	82	159
Geekbench - OpenCL	1210	1544
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		4.046
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		83.907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		6.791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		17.41
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1683

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8280E	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Fermi
Code name	Kalindi	GF108
Launch date	23 April 2013	15 May 2012
Place in performance rating	1543	1545
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$39.99
Price now		$39.99
Value for money (0-100)		13.32
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	585 million
CUDA cores		96
Floating-point performance		268.8 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		98 °C
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		11.2 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI, VGA
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0
Height		2.7" (6.9 cm)
Length		5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1.8 GB/s
Memory type		DDR3
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
CUDA