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.

 

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 1323 1326
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