Radeon HD 8310G vs E8950

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking424not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.59no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameAmethystScrapper Lite
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 September 2015 (10 years ago)July 2013 (12 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 cores2048128
Core clock speed735 MHz554 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz720 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate128.05.760
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPS0.1843 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1288
L1 Cache512 KBno data
L2 Cache512 KBno data

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 20 Watt

Radeon E8950 has a 14% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8310G, on the other hand, has 375% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E8950 and Radeon HD 8310G. We've got no test results to judge.

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