AMD Radeon HD 6230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6230 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon HD 6230

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6230

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 42% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 459 MHz
Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 5.2 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16
3.5x better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 40 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 179 vs 151
10.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 254 vs 25
3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 744 vs 224
3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 744 vs 224
2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1293 vs 445
2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1293 vs 445

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 July 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Pipelines	80 vs 16
Floating-point performance	104 gflops vs 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 40 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	179 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark	254 vs 25
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	744 vs 224
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	744 vs 224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1293 vs 445
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1293 vs 445

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

179

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

254

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

744

224

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

744

224

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1293

445

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1293

445

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6230	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	179	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	254	25
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	252
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	744	224
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	744	224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1293	445
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1293	445
Geekbench - OpenCL		1791

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6230	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Park	G86
Launch date	2 July 2011	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1368	1688
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$29.99
Price now		$39.99
Value for money (0-100)		3.68
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	459 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	80	16
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI