Radeon HD 8210E vs GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1227
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.84
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameC79Kalindi
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 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 cores16128
Core clock speed450 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors314 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt9 Watt
Texture fill rate3.6002.400
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS0.0768 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).

InterfacePCIIGP
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared

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 VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 23 April 2013
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 9 Watt

HD 8210E has an age advantage of 6 years, a 132.1% more advanced lithography process, and 344.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i and Radeon HD 8210E. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i is a desktop card while Radeon HD 8210E is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
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AMD Radeon HD 8210E
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