NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA ION

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
14.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 571 vs 40
14.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 571 vs 40

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571 vs 40
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571 vs 40

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

Around 82% lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 20 Watt
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 101 vs 84
Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 34 vs 18

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	101 vs 84
PassMark - G2D Mark	34 vs 18

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA ION
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

101

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

Name	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	84	101
PassMark - G2D Mark	18	34
Geekbench - OpenCL	2440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571	40
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571	40

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	MCP7A-ION	G86
Launch date	3 June 2008	9 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1690	1693
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$14.99
Price now		$14.99
Value for money (0-100)		7.22
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	11 Watt
Transistor count	282 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	PCI	MXM-I
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	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