Radeon 740M vs HD 8310G

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated503
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data38.63
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameScrapper LitePhoenix
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateJuly 2013 (11 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores128256
Core clock speed554 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz2500 MHz
Number of transistors1,303 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate5.76040.00
Floating-point processing power0.1843 TFLOPS2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816
Ray Tracing Coresno data4

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 x8
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 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 32 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 740M has a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8310G and Radeon 740M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8310G
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