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).

AMD Radeon HD 8330E

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

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 76% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 456 vs 259
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 94 vs 83
Around 55% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1879 vs 1214

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	456 vs 259
PassMark - G2D Mark	94 vs 83
Geekbench - OpenCL	1879 vs 1214

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

259

456

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1214

1879

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8330E	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
PassMark - G3D Mark	259	456
PassMark - G2D Mark	83	94
Geekbench - OpenCL	1214	1879
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	1538	1541
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
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