NVIDIA GeForce 945M vs AMD Radeon HD 8210E

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945M and AMD Radeon HD 8210E 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

AMD Radeon HD 8210E

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
10.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2109 vs 194
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 240 vs 202

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 October 2015 vs 23 April 2013
Core clock speed	1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2109 vs 194
PassMark - G2D Mark	240 vs 202

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8210E

8.3x lower typical power consumption: 9 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8210E

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2109

194

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

240

202

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945M	AMD Radeon HD 8210E
PassMark - G3D Mark	2109	194
PassMark - G2D Mark	240	202
Geekbench - OpenCL	8099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	380.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	31.027
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	107.094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3343

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945M	AMD Radeon HD 8210E
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	GCN 2.0
Code name	GM107	Kalindi
Launch date	27 October 2015	23 April 2013
Place in performance rating	961	844
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	953.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	29.81 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	9 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	1,178 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus