GeForce 6100 + nForce 405 vs Radeon HD 8280

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1228not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.12no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameKalindiC61
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 September 2013 (11 years ago)11 October 2004 (20 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 cores128no data
Core clock speed450 MHz425 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.6000.43
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs81

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).

InterfaceIGPPCI
WidthIGPIGP

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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory++

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.33.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 September 2013 11 October 2004
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

HD 8280 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

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