Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics vs HD 8330

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1175not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.21no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameKalindiSpectre SL
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date13 August 2013 (11 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 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 cores128192
Core clock speed497 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speedno data655 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt17 Watt
Texture fill rate3.9766.396
Floating-point processing power0.1272 TFLOPS0.2047 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs812

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP
WidthIGPno 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 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 compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2013 17 September 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 17 Watt

HD 8330 has 13.3% lower power consumption.

R4 Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8330 and Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8330 is a desktop card while Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8330
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