Radeon HD 8310G vs GeForce FX Go5650

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameNV31Scrapper Lite
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year ago)July 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 speed325 MHz554 MHz
Boost clock speedno data720 MHz
Number of transistors80 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data20 Watt
Texture fill rate1.3005.760
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1843 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

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 8xIGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed295 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth9.44 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 130 nm 32 nm

HD 8310G has a 306.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX Go5650 and Radeon HD 8310G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX Go5650 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8310G is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
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AMD Radeon HD 8310G
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