NVIDIA GeForce 930A vs AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8310E videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 930A

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 930A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 928 MHz vs 400 MHz
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1263 vs 341
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 207 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 23 April 2013
Core clock speed	928 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1263 vs 341
PassMark - G2D Mark	207 vs 187

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 33 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 930A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8310E

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1263

341

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

207

187

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 930A	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
PassMark - G3D Mark	1263	341
PassMark - G2D Mark	207	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	5317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2081
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2081
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3192
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3192
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 930A	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	GCN 2.0
Code name	GM108	Kalindi
Launch date	13 March 2015	23 April 2013
Place in performance rating	913	914
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz
Core clock speed	928 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	22.58 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count		1,178 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3