NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 400 MHz
7.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2585 vs 341
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 23 April 2013
Core clock speed	914 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2585 vs 341
PassMark - G2D Mark	217 vs 187

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

3x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8310E

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2585

341

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

217

187

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
PassMark - G3D Mark	2585	341
PassMark - G2D Mark	217	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	9728
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	GCN 2.0
Code name	GM107	Kalindi
Launch date	13 March 2015	23 April 2013
Place in performance rating	884	887
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	1,178 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	IGP
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	32 or 80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 or GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI