AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm

Launch date	1 June 2016 vs 9 May 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

2x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 200 MHz
Around 36% lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 15 Watt

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 200 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt vs 15 Watt

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 8400M 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		101
PassMark - G2D Mark		34
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		40
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		40

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Stoney	G86
Launch date	1 June 2016	9 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1696	1693
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$14.99
Price now		$14.99
Value for money (0-100)		7.22
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	11 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		25.6 gflops
Pipelines		16
Texture fill rate		3.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	MXM-I
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0