Radeon HD 6310 vs GeForce 8800 GTX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	971	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02	no data
Power efficiency	0.69	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	G80	Loveland
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	8 November 2006 (18 years ago)	9 November 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	575	80
Core clock speed	576 MHz	276 MHz
Number of transistors	681 million	450 million
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	155 Watt	18 Watt
Texture fill rate	36.86	2.208
Floating-point processing power	0.3456 TFLOPS	0.04416 TFLOPS
ROPs	24	4
TMUs	32	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	IGP
Length	270 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data
SLI options	+	-

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 type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	768 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	384 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	86.4 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 November 2006	9 November 2010
Chip lithography	90 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	155 Watt	18 Watt

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