AMD Radeon HD 8310E vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8310E and NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 120 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 220 nm
  • 68.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 341 vs 5
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 April 2013 vs 1 February 2000
Core clock speed 400 MHz vs 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 220 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 341 vs 5

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 201 vs 187
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 201 vs 187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8310E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
187
201
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
341
5
Name AMD Radeon HD 8310E NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
PassMark - G2D Mark 187 201
PassMark - G3D Mark 341 5

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8310E NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Celsius
Code name Kalindi NV10 A3
Launch date 23 April 2013 1 February 2000
Place in performance rating 887 884
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 220 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt
Transistor count 1,178 million 17 million
Texture fill rate 480 MTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 7.0
OpenGL 4.5 1.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 MB
Memory bandwidth 4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 300 MHz
Memory type DDR