AMD Radeon HD 8310E vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8310E and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6.4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 160 Watt

Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 12 July 2010
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 160 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

Around 69% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 400 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 388 vs 187
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2272 vs 341

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	388 vs 187
PassMark - G3D Mark	2272 vs 341

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8310E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

187

388

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

341

2272

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
PassMark - G2D Mark	187	388
PassMark - G3D Mark	341	2272
Geekbench - OpenCL		7860
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		21.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		617.847
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.823
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.222
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		40.61
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Fermi
Code name	Kalindi	GF104
Launch date	23 April 2013	12 July 2010
Place in performance rating	914	917
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$89.99
Value for money (0-100)		34.71
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	160 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	1,950 million
Floating-point performance		907.2 gflops
Pipelines		336
Texture fill rate		37.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
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		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376"(111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		8.25"(210 mm) (21 cm)
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin & 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		768 MB
Memory bandwidth		86.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		192 Bit
Memory clock speed		3600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI