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).

 

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) 0.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 14.246
PassMark - G3D Mark 156
PassMark - G2D Mark 24
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 1698 1695
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