NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 93% higher core clock speed: 771 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	8 November 2013 vs 23 April 2013
Core clock speed	771 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

4.9x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 122 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1002.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	54.752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	126.579
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6703
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	108.2
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	119.7
PassMark - G2D Mark		187
PassMark - G3D Mark		341

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	GCN 2.0
Code name	GK104	Kalindi
Launch date	8 November 2013	23 April 2013
Place in performance rating	887	888
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	797 MHz
Core clock speed	771 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1536
Texture fill rate	102.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	1,178 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5