Radeon 610M vs GeForce 8400 GS

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	751
Place by popularity	not in top-100	45
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name	G86	RDNA 2
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	20 September 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$29.99	no data
Current price	$125 (4.2x MSRP)	no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	128
Core clock speed	459 MHz	400 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2200 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.6 billion/sec	15.20
Floating-point performance	29.376 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce 8400 GS and Radeon 610M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	170 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
SLI options	+	no 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 type	DDR2	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	4.0	6.7
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	1.1	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 April 2007	20 September 2022
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Chip lithography	80 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	15 Watt

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