AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 4x more pipelines: 128 vs 32
  • 2.1x better floating-point performance: 127.2 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 134
  • Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 68 vs 59
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 August 2013 vs 1 February 2008
Pipelines 128 vs 32
Floating-point performance 127.2 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 270 vs 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 68 vs 59

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

  • Around 91% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 497 MHz
  • Around 91% higher texture fill rate: 7.6 GTexel / s vs 3.976 GTexel / s
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1053 vs 980
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1053 vs 980
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 497 MHz
Texture fill rate 7.6 GTexel / s vs 3.976 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1053 vs 980
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1053 vs 980

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
270
134
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
68
59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
1053
Name AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 270 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 68 59
Geekbench - OpenCL 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 470
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 470
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 619
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 619
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 980 1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 980 1053

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla
Code name Kalindi G84
Launch date 13 August 2013 1 February 2008
Place in performance rating 1610 1608
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 497 MHz 950 MHz
Floating-point performance 127.2 gflops 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 128 32
Texture fill rate 3.976 GTexel / s 7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 1,178 million 289 million
CUDA cores 32

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Memory type System Shared GDDR2 / GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 700 MHz
Shared memory 0