Radeon HD 8310G vs GRID K520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking478not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.34no data
Power efficiency2.82no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameGK104Scrapper Lite
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1536128
Core clock speed745 MHz554 MHz
Boost clock speedno data720 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate95.365.760
Floating-point processing power2.289 TFLOPS0.1843 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1288

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 20 Watt

GRID K520 has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8310G, on the other hand, has 1025% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GRID K520 and Radeon HD 8310G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GRID K520 is a workstation card while Radeon HD 8310G is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GRID K520
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