AMD Radeon HD 8310E vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8310E and NVIDIA Quadro K500M 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 Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 187 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 1 June 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	187 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

2.1x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 480 vs 341

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	480 vs 341

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8310E
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

187

184

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

341

480

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
PassMark - G2D Mark	187	184
PassMark - G3D Mark	341	480

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Kepler
Code name	Kalindi	GK107
Launch date	23 April 2013	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	887	888
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	1,270 million
Floating-point performance		326.4 gflops
Pipelines		192
Texture fill rate		13.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Memory type		DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0