AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8330 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 497 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 3.976 GTexel / s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 128 vs 16
  • 4.4x better floating-point performance: 127.2 gflops vs 28.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 266 vs 67
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 68 vs 56
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 980 vs 892
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 980 vs 892
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 August 2013 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed 497 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 3.976 GTexel / s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 128 vs 16
Floating-point performance 127.2 gflops vs 28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 266 vs 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 68 vs 56
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 980 vs 892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 980 vs 892

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 15 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 15 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
266
67
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
68
56
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
892
Name AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 266 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 68 56
Geekbench - OpenCL 1079
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 470
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 470
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 619
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 619
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 980 892
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 980 892

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla
Code name Kalindi G86
Launch date 13 August 2013 9 May 2007
Place in performance rating 1619 1622
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 497 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 127.2 gflops 28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 128 16
Texture fill rate 3.976 GTexel / s 3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 1,178 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

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

Technologies

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