NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS videocard review

GeForce 8400M GS videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 9 May 2007. At the time of release, the videocard cost $14.99. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G86.

Core clock speed - 400 MHz. Texture fill rate - 3.2 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 25.6 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 210 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 11 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2 / GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 256 MB. Memory bus width - 64 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 6.4 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38618

109

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1302

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

40 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

40.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	109
PassMark - G2D Mark	37
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	40 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	40.000 Fps

Games performance

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	87.00
Medium, 640x480	67.80
High, 800x600	57.00
Ultra, 1024x768	32.80

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

192.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G86
Launch date	9 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$14.99
Place in performance rating	1694
Price now	$14.99
Type	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	7.22
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt
Transistor count	210 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-I
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0