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).

 

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 47% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 376 vs 256
  • Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 158 vs 81
  • Around 29% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1555 vs 1210
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 376 vs 256
PassMark - G2D Mark 158 vs 81
Geekbench - OpenCL 1555 vs 1210

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
256
376
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
81
158
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1210
1555
Name AMD Radeon HD 8280E NVIDIA GeForce GT 620
PassMark - G3D Mark 256 376
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 158
Geekbench - OpenCL 1210 1555
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 1548 1550
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