NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X

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NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS AMD Radeon R9 M295X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X 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 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X +11288%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

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Radeon R9 M295X

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-I

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

16

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

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

23.14 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

25.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Amethyst

NB8M-GS

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

5 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

11W

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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