AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 5.4x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 135 Watt
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 77 vs 71
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 November 2013 vs 11 December 2007
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 135 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 77 vs 71

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 13x more texture fill rate: 41.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • 4.1x better floating-point performance: 416.0 gflops vs 102.4 gflops
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 555 vs 266
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3342 vs 1631
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3342 vs 1631
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 41.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 416.0 gflops vs 102.4 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 555 vs 266
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3342 vs 1631
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3342 vs 1631

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
266
555
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
77
71
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1631
3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1631
3342
Name AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
PassMark - G3D Mark 266 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 77 71
Geekbench - OpenCL 1207
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.197
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1322.192
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.774
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 47.241
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 224.569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 930
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1631 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 930
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1631 3342

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla
Code name Kalindi G92
Launch date 23 November 2013 11 December 2007
Place in performance rating 1342 1340
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $349

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 102.4 gflops 416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 128 128
Texture fill rate 3.2 GTexel / s 41.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 135 Watt
Transistor count 1,178 million 754 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Memory type System Shared GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 52.5 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1640 MHz