NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M G and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400M G

0.013 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +15261%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M G

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

8

Shading Units

1024

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

12.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Pitcairn

NB8M-SE

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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