NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 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, 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 MX250

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 25 Watt
7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2424 vs 341
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 242 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 23 April 2013
Core clock speed	937 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2424 vs 341
PassMark - G2D Mark	242 vs 187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8310E

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2424

341

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

242

187

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
PassMark - G3D Mark	2424	341
PassMark - G2D Mark	242	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	9094
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	46.992
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	535.24
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	44.7
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	141.816
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4027
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4027
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	888

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 2.0
Code name	GP108B	Kalindi
Launch date	21 February 2019	23 April 2013
Place in performance rating	885	888
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	937 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	1,178 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5