Radeon HD 8310E vs ATI FireGL 8700

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1125
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.43
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameR200Kalindi
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date14 August 2001 (23 years ago)23 April 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data128
Core clock speed250 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors60 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rate2.0002.400
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0768 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 4xIGP
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount64 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed270 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8.64 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGANo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX8.112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGL1.44.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2001 23 April 2013
Chip lithography 150 nm 28 nm

HD 8310E has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL 8700 and Radeon HD 8310E. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL 8700 is a workstation card while Radeon HD 8310E is a notebook one.


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ATI FireGL 8700
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