Radeon HD 8210E vs GeForce GTX 480 512

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	1224
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	3.85
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name	GF100	Kalindi
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	no data (2024 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 cores	512	128
Core clock speed	527 MHz	300 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	9 Watt
Texture fill rate	33.73	2.400
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.0768 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	4
TMUs	64	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
Length	292 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	384 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	2.8 GB/s	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	134.4 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	375 Watt	9 Watt

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