ATI Radeon X300 SE vs HD 8400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1176not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.89no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameKalindiRV370
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 November 2013 (11 years ago)1 September 2004 (20 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 MHz325 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million107 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2001.300
Floating-point processing power0.1024 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 1.0 x16
WidthIGP1-slot
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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared64 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3.2 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 November 2013 1 September 2004
Chip lithography 28 nm 110 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 30 Watt

HD 8400 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8400 and Radeon X300 SE. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8400
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