AMD Radeon HD 8310G vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameNV41Trinity
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date28 July 2005 (18 years old)23 May 2013 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$135.75 no data
Current price$16.99 (0.1x MSRP)$338

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 coresno data128
Core clock speed425 MHz424 MHz
Boost clock speedno data554 MHz
Number of transistors222 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)83 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate5.1005.760

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro FX 3450 and Radeon HD 8310G 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.

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16IGP
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 28 July 2005 23 May 2013
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB System Shared
Chip lithography 130 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 83 Watt 20 Watt

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 3450 and Radeon HD 8310G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 3450 is a workstation card while Radeon HD 8310G is a notebook one.


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