Radeon HD 8310E vs Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1129
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.41
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG84Kalindi
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date27 September 2008 (16 years ago)23 April 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

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 cores32128
Core clock speed520 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors289 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)42 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate8.3202.400
Floating-point processing power0.06656 TFLOPS0.0768 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs168

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed650 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth20.8 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 September 2008 23 April 2013
Chip lithography 80 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 42 Watt 25 Watt

HD 8310E has an age advantage of 4 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 68% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition and Radeon HD 8310E. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition is a workstation card while Radeon HD 8310E is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
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AMD Radeon HD 8310E
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