AMD Radeon HD 8570M vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8570M and NVIDIA GeForce 305M 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, 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 8570M

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8570M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
3.9x more texture fill rate: 16.5 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
14.3x better floating-point performance: 528.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 441 vs 151
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 162 vs 149
2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5101 vs 1987

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2013 vs 10 January 2010
Texture fill rate	16.5 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 16
Floating-point performance	528.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	441 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark	162 vs 149
Geekbench - OpenCL	5101 vs 1987

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 750 MHz

Core clock speed	1150 MHz vs 750 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

441

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

162

149

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

5101

1987

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8570M	NVIDIA GeForce 305M
PassMark - G3D Mark	441	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	162	149
Geekbench - OpenCL	5101	1987
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1011
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2059
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2214
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1011
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2059
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2214
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8570M	NVIDIA GeForce 305M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Sun	GT218
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 March 2013	10 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1324	1327
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	750 MHz	1150 MHz
Floating-point performance	528.0 gflops	36.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	16
Texture fill rate	16.5 GTexel / s	4.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	260 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		55
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		14 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0