AMD Radeon HD 8570D vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8570D and NVIDIA GeForce 305M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 8570D

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8570D

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
16x more pipelines: 256 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 443 vs 151
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 161 vs 149

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 September 2012 vs 10 January 2010
Pipelines	256 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	443 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark	161 vs 149

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 844 MHz
Around 34% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1987 vs 1482

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1150 MHz vs 844 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	1987 vs 1482

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8570D
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 305M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

443

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

161

149

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1482

1987

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8570D	NVIDIA GeForce 305M
PassMark - G3D Mark	443	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	161	149
Geekbench - OpenCL	1482	1987
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1924
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2966
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1924
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2966
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8570D	NVIDIA GeForce 305M
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 3	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Richland	GT218
Launch date	26 September 2012	10 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1329	1332
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	844 MHz	1150 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	256	16
CUDA cores		16
Floating-point performance		36.8 gflops
Gigaflops		55
Texture fill rate		4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		14 Watt
Transistor count		260 million
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Shared memory	1	0
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory type		GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0