AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 112 vs 67
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1187 vs 892
  • Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1187 vs 892
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 June 2012 vs 9 May 2007
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 112 vs 67
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1187 vs 892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1187 vs 892

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 18 Watt
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 56 vs 48
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 18 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 56 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
112
67
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
48
56
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1187
892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1187
892
Name AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 112 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 48 56
Geekbench - OpenCL 1488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 548
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 548
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1187 892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1187 892

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7290 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Loveland G86
Launch date 6 June 2012 9 May 2007
Place in performance rating 1627 1624
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 18 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 450 million 210 million
Floating-point performance 28.8 gflops
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 3.6 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 / GDDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0