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.

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

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

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	914	911
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