Radeon HD 8280 Mobile IGP vs GeForce GT 240M

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	1182	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GT2xx (2009−2012)	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name	N10P-GS	Kalindi
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	15 June 2009 (14 years old)	18 September 2013 (10 years old)
Current price	$129	no data

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	48	128
CUDA cores	48	no data
Core clock speed	550 MHz	450 MHz
Number of transistors	486 million	1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	8.800	3.600
Floating-point performance	116.16 gflops	no data
Gigaflops	174	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 240M and Radeon HD 8280 Mobile IGP compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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.

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP

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	DDR3, GDDR2, GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 1066 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	25.6 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	Single Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMIVGA	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	4.1	6.3
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	+	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	15 June 2009	18 September 2013
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	15 Watt

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