AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M 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, 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 33% higher pipelines: 128 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 65 Watt

Launch date	23 November 2013 vs 29 July 2008
Pipelines	128 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
7.5x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
2.3x better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 102.4 gflops
Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 381 vs 267
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 77
Around 98% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3237 vs 1631
Around 98% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3237 vs 1631

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 102.4 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	381 vs 267
PassMark - G2D Mark	81 vs 77
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3237 vs 1631
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3237 vs 1631

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

267

381

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1631

3237

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1631

3237

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	267	381
PassMark - G2D Mark	77	81
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	3237
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	930
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1631	3237

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Kalindi	G92
Launch date	23 November 2013	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1348	1345
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	102.4 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	128	96
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	754 million
CUDA cores		96
Gigaflops		360
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
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		51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PureVideo HD