GeForce 8400M G vs Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking393not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameno dataG86
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateApril 2018 (6 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7688
Core clock speed1366 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1442 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data210 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data3.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount3 MB256 MB
Memory bus width96 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1752 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth84 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Multi-Projection+no data
Multi Monitor+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 80 nm

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile has a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

8400M G, on the other hand, has a 8433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile and GeForce 8400M G. We've got no test results to judge.


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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
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