AMD Radeon HD 8400E vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8400E and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8400E

  • Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 33 Watt
  • 2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7310 vs 2602
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 7310 vs 2602

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

  • Around 29% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 460 vs 276
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 119 vs 113
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2570 vs 980
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2570 vs 980
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2035 vs 1665
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2035 vs 1665
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 460 vs 276
PassMark - G2D Mark 119 vs 113
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2570 vs 980
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2570 vs 980
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2035 vs 1665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2035 vs 1665

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8400E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
276
460
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
113
119
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
7310
2602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
2570
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
980
2570
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1665
2035
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1665
2035
Name AMD Radeon HD 8400E NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
PassMark - G3D Mark 276 460
PassMark - G2D Mark 113 119
Geekbench - OpenCL 7310 2602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 980 2570
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 980 2570
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1665 2035
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1665 2035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.901
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 146.913
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.587
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 22.755
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1047
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1047

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8400E NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name Kalindi GF117
Launch date 23 April 2013 1 April 2013
Place in performance rating 1443 1444
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 775 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 1,178 million 585 million
Boost clock speed 938 MHz
Floating-point performance 240.0 gflops
Pipelines 96
Texture fill rate 12.4 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 2560x1600
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 2560x1600
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3

Technologies

Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus