Radeon HD 8450G vs NVS 315

Place in performance ranking	1084	1083
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.02	0.02
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name	GF119	Richland
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	10 March 2013 (11 years ago)	12 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$159	no data
Current price	$213 (1.3x MSRP)	$338

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

NVS 315 and HD 8450G have a nearly equal value for money.

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	192
Core clock speed	523 MHz	533 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	720 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.184	8.640
Floating-point performance	100.4 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on NVS 315 and Radeon HD 8450G 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.

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
Length	145 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	DDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	14 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 DMS-59

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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.

NVS 315 0.89

HD 8450G 0.90
+1.1%

Radeon HD 8450G outperforms NVS 315 by 1% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

NVS 315 346

HD 8450G 348
+0.6%

Radeon HD 8450G outperforms NVS 315 by 1% in Passmark.