NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 +1400%

0.39 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-I

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

-

25.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

11W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Jet

NB8M-GS

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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