AMD Radeon HD 7400G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7400G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7400G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 192 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3083 vs 1876
  • Around 64% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3083 vs 1876
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2012 vs 3 March 2009
Pipelines 192 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3083 vs 1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3083 vs 1876

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

  • 4.5x more core clock speed: 1463 MHz vs 327 MHz
  • Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 153 vs 109
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 576 vs 267
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1463 MHz vs 327 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 153 vs 109
PassMark - G3D Mark 576 vs 267

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7400G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3083
1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3083
1876
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
109
153
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
267
576
Name AMD Radeon HD 7400G NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
Geekbench - OpenCL 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1894
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1894
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3083 1876
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3083 1876
PassMark - G2D Mark 109 153
PassMark - G3D Mark 267 576

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7400G NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Tesla
Code name Trinity G92
Launch date 1 September 2012 3 March 2009
Place in performance rating 1274 1275
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 423 MHz
Core clock speed 327 MHz 1463 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 192 128
CUDA cores 128
Floating-point performance 374.5 gflops
Gigaflops 562
Texture fill rate 38 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 754 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized large
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface MXM-IV
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 61 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Display Connectors HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD
SLI