AMD Radeon HD 8310E vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8310E and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 15 November 2010
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

3.3x more core clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 187
5.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1990 vs 341

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1300 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	363 vs 187
PassMark - G3D Mark	1990 vs 341

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

187

363

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

341

1990

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
PassMark - G2D Mark	187	363
PassMark - G3D Mark	341	1990
Geekbench - OpenCL		6340
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.62
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		635.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.755
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		24.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		48.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3108

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Fermi
Code name	Kalindi	GF104
Launch date	23 April 2013	15 November 2010
Place in performance rating	914	916
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$160
Price now		$159.99
Value for money (0-100)		15.95
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	1,950 million
CUDA cores		288
Floating-point performance		748.8 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		104 °C
Pipelines		288
Texture fill rate		31.2 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, 2 x Dual-Link DVI-I1 x Mini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Number of display connectors		2
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		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		108.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1700 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround