AMD Radeon HD 7340 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7340 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 7340

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 16% higher core clock speed: 523 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 153 vs 67
  • Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1467 vs 892
  • Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1467 vs 892
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 May 2012 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed 523 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines 80 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 153 vs 67
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1467 vs 892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1467 vs 892

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 56 vs 50
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 56 vs 50

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7340
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
50
56
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
153
67
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1467
892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1467
892
Name AMD Radeon HD 7340 NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 312
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 312
PassMark - G2D Mark 50 56
PassMark - G3D Mark 153 67
Geekbench - OpenCL 359
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 862
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1467 892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1467 892

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7340 NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla
Code name Zacate G86
Launch date 1 May 2012 9 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $552.69
Place in performance rating 1621 1623
Price now $552.69
Type Laptop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 0.45

Technical info

Boost clock speed 680 MHz
Core clock speed 523 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 80 16
Floating-point performance 28.8 gflops
Texture fill rate 3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt
Transistor count 210 million

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
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

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16

Technologies

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