AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

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

304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +2434%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

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GeForce 8400M GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2007

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

16

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

25.60 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

G86

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

NB8M-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

11W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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