GRID A100B vs Radeon HD 8210

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1232not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.27no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameKalindiGA100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date31 January 2014 (10 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 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 cores1286912
Core clock speed300 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1005 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)8 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rate2.400434.2
Floating-point processing power0.0768 TFLOPS13.89 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs8432
Tensor Coresno data432

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
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 SharedHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared48 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared6144 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1215 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,866 GB/s
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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2014 14 May 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 8 Watt 400 Watt

HD 8210 has 4900% lower power consumption.

GRID A100B, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8210 and GRID A100B. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8210 is a notebook card while GRID A100B is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8210
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