AMD Radeon HD 8310G vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name	NV35	Trinity
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	23 October 2003 (20 years old)	23 May 2013 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	no data
Current price	no data	$338

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	no data	128
Core clock speed	450 MHz	424 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	554 MHz
Number of transistors	135 million	1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	59 Watt	20 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.600	5.760

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and Radeon HD 8310G compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	AGP 8x	IGP
Length	218 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	no data

Memory

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 type	DDR	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	850 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	27.2 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	9.0a	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	no data	5.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	4.4
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	23 October 2003	23 May 2013
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Chip lithography	130 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	59 Watt	20 Watt

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