AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 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: 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), 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).

AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 40 Watt

Launch date	1 June 2016 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 40 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

2.3x more core clock speed: 459 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	459 MHz vs 200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Name	AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.596
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	85.634
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.407
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	14.246
PassMark - G3D Mark		151
PassMark - G2D Mark		25
Geekbench - OpenCL		1791
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		224
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		445
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		445

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Stoney	G86
Launch date	1 June 2016	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1690	1688
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$29.99
Price now		$39.99
Value for money (0-100)		3.68
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	459 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		29.376 gflops
Pipelines		16
Texture fill rate		3.6 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI