AMD Radeon HD 8330 vs Intel HD Graphics 3000

General info

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

Place in performance rating	1088	1093
Place by popularity	62	no data
Value for money	no data	0.01
Architecture	Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Sandy Bridge	Kabini
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 February 2011 (12 years old)	23 May 2013 (9 years old)
Current price	$476	$143

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	12	128
Core clock speed	350 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1350 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	995 million	1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	28 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)	unknown	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	13.80	3.976
Floating-point performance	20.4 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on HD Graphics 3000 and Radeon HD 8330 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.

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

IGP

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	System Shared	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	System Shared
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	System Shared	System Shared
Shared memory	+	+

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

No outputs

No outputs

API support

List of supported APIs, including specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	4.1	6.3
OpenGL	3.1	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

9 −22.2%

11 +22.2%

Popular games

Advantages and disadvantages

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Performance rating	0.64	0.63
Recency	1 February 2011	23 May 2013
Pipelines / CUDA cores	12	128
Chip lithography	32 nm	28 nm

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