NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS vs NVIDIA NVS 4200M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS and 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 25W)

NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M +500%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

VS

NVS 4200M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-I

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

1

16

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

16 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

25.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

11W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GF119

NB8M-GS

GPU Variant

N12P-NS1-S-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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