AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX 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 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 14% higher pipelines: 128 vs 112
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 75 Watt

Launch date	23 November 2013 vs 15 July 2008
Pipelines	128 vs 112
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
8.8x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
2.7x better floating-point performance: 280 gflops vs 102.4 gflops
Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 454 vs 261
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 89 vs 78

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	280 gflops vs 102.4 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	454 vs 261
PassMark - G2D Mark	89 vs 78

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

261

454

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	261	454
PassMark - G2D Mark	78	89
Geekbench - OpenCL	1202
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	930
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1631

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8400 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Tesla
Code name	Kalindi	G92
Launch date	23 November 2013	15 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1350	1348
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$328.50
Price now		$328.50
Value for money (0-100)		2.78
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	102.4 gflops	280 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	128	112
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	754 million
CUDA cores per GPU		112
Gigaflops		420
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		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
SLI