Radeon 890M 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 rated310
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code nameG98Strix Point
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 December 2007 (17 years ago)15 July 2024 (1 year 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 cores81024
Core clock speed567 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistors210 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate4.536185.6
Floating-point processing power0.0224 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs864
Ray Tracing Coresno data16
L0 Cacheno data256 KB
L1 Cacheno data256 KB
L2 Cache16 KB2 MB

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 December 2007 15 July 2024
Chip lithography 65 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 890M has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1525% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 is a desktop graphics card while Radeon 890M is a notebook one.

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NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2
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