Riva TNT vs Radeon HD 8180

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code nameKalindiNV4
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release dateNovember 2013 (11 years ago)23 March 1998 (26 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 speed225 MHz90 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million7 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)4 Wattno data
Texture fill rate1.8000.18
Floating-point processing power0.0576 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs82

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).

InterfaceIGPAGP 2x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 SharedSDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared110 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.76 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)5.0
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 350 nm

HD 8180 has a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8180 and Riva TNT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8180 is a notebook card while Riva TNT is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8180
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