AMD Radeon HD 8330E vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8330E and NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8330E

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
Launch date 23 April 2013 vs 5 January 2011
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 23 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 458 vs 259
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 93 vs 83
  • Around 54% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1864 vs 1214
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 458 vs 259
PassMark - G2D Mark 93 vs 83
Geekbench - OpenCL 1864 vs 1214

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8330E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
259
458
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
83
93
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1214
1864
Name AMD Radeon HD 8330E NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
PassMark - G3D Mark 259 458
PassMark - G2D Mark 83 93
Geekbench - OpenCL 1214 1864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 131.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 8.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2623
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2623

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8330E NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Fermi
Code name Kalindi GF108
Launch date 23 April 2013 5 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1539 1542
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 1,178 million 585 million
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 230.4 gflops
Pipelines 96
Texture fill rate 9.6 billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus