AMD Radeon HD 8310E vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8310E and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 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 Go 6800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 89 Watt
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 341 vs 138

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 24 February 2005
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 89 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	341 vs 138

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 198 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	198 vs 187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8310E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

187

198

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

341

138

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G2D Mark	187	198
PassMark - G3D Mark	341	138

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Curie
Code name	Kalindi	NV41
Launch date	23 April 2013	24 February 2005
Place in performance rating	887	884
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	89 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	222 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Pipelines		12
Texture fill rate		5.4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		600 Bit
Memory clock speed		1200 MHz
Memory type		256
Shared memory		0