Radeon 535 Mobile vs GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameG98Polaris 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 December 2007 (16 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8384
Core clock speed567 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1024 MHz
Number of transistors210 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate4.53624.58
Floating-point processing power0.0224 TFLOPS0.7864 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s36 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 December 2007 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 50 Watt

8400 GS Rev. 2 has 100% lower power consumption.

535 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 and Radeon 535 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 is a desktop card while Radeon 535 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2
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AMD Radeon 535 Mobile
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