AMD Radeon HD 8210 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8210 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points
Identical
121 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
Identical
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

784 points
2056 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

988 points
2610 points
164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

8 W
312% significantly lower TDP
33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

1.2 Gigapixels/s
3.03 Gigapixels/s
152% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

2.4 Gigatexels/s
12.13 Gigatexels/s
405% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

128
192
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

8
16
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
8
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 601
497th of 601

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 January
2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon HD 8210 vs GeForce GT 720M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 720M GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8210 in gaming.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8210 has a significantly lower TDP at 8 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720M at 33 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 720M is faster than the Radeon HD 8210.

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