NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 85% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 540 MHz
6x more pipelines: 48 vs 8
4.6x better floating-point performance: 96 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 25 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
3.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 286 vs 81
Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 221 vs 160
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1570 vs 733
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1570 vs 733

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 4 December 2007
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 540 MHz
Pipelines	48 vs 8
Floating-point performance	96 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	286 vs 81
PassMark - G2D Mark	221 vs 160
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1570 vs 733
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1570 vs 733

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400

Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 3.0 billion / sec
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s vs 3.0 billion / sec
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

286

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

221

160

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1570

733

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1570

733

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M	NVIDIA GeForce 8400
PassMark - G3D Mark	286	81
PassMark - G2D Mark	221	160
Geekbench - OpenCL	751
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	442
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	442
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1158
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1570	733
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1570	733

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M	NVIDIA GeForce 8400
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G98
Launch date	3 September 2010	4 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1388	1391
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$69.78
Price now		$69.78
Value for money (0-100)		1.87
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	540 MHz
CUDA cores	48
Floating-point performance	96 gflops	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	48	8
Texture fill rate	3.0 billion / sec	4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	(G)DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus