Matrox G550 vs Radeon HD 8400

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1171not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.91no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)G500 (2001−2005)
GPU code nameKalindiCondor
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 November 2013 (10 years ago)1 January 2001 (23 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 cores128no data
Core clock speed400 MHz125 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million10 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.2000.25
Floating-point processing power0.1024 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs82

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).

InterfaceIGPAGP 4x
Lengthno data168 mm
WidthIGP1-slot

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 SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared332 MBps
Memory bandwidthno data2.656 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)8.0
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.61.5
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 November 2013 1 January 2001
Chip lithography 28 nm 180 nm

HD 8400 has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8400 and Matrox G550. We've got no test results to judge.


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