GeForce 9300M GS vs Radeon HD 8400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1167not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.99no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameKalindiG98
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 November 2013 (10 years ago)4 June 2008 (16 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 cores1288
Core clock speed400 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2004.400
Floating-point processing power0.1024 TFLOPS0.0224 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data34
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfaceIGPMXM-I
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data11.2 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.34.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

HD 8400 266
+166%
9300M GS 100

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 8400 2013
+654%
9300M GS 267

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 November 2013 4 June 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 13 Watt

HD 8400 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

9300M GS, on the other hand, has 92.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8400 and GeForce 9300M GS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8400 is a desktop card while GeForce 9300M GS is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8400
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