GeForce 205 OEM vs Radeon HD 8350G

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1141not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.61no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameScrapper LiteGT218
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 March 2013 (11 years ago)26 November 2009 (14 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 cores12816
Core clock speed514 MHz589 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate5.7604.712
Floating-point processing power0.1843 TFLOPS0.04486 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
WidthIGP1-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 SharedDDR2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 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 DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2013 26 November 2009
Chip lithography 32 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 31 Watt

HD 8350G has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

205 OEM, on the other hand, has 12.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8350G and GeForce 205 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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