NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA ION

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 571 vs 568
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 571 vs 568

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 4 December 2007
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571 vs 568
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571 vs 568

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 567 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	567 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA ION
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

568

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

568

Name	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2
PassMark - G3D Mark	84
PassMark - G2D Mark	18
Geekbench - OpenCL	2440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571	568
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571	568

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	MCP7A-ION	G98
Launch date	3 June 2008	4 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1691	1693
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	567 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	282 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		22.4 gflops
Pipelines		8
Texture fill rate		4.54 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2