AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 497 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 68
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 68 vs 61
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 August 2013 vs 15 October 2008
Core clock speed 497 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 270 vs 68
PassMark - G2D Mark 68 vs 61

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 15 Watt
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1044 vs 980
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1044 vs 980
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 15 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1044 vs 980
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1044 vs 980

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
270
68
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
68
61
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
1044
Name AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
PassMark - G3D Mark 270 68
PassMark - G2D Mark 68 61
Geekbench - OpenCL 1094
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 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 980 1044

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8330 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla
Code name Kalindi C79MX
Launch date 13 August 2013 15 October 2008
Place in performance rating 1610 1607
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 497 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 127.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 128
Texture fill rate 3.976 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 1,178 million 314 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Memory type System Shared