Radeon R6 Graphics vs GeForce 8400 GS

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1256not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.69no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG86Spectre Lite
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$29.99 no data

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 cores16384
Core clock speed459 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors210 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate3.67214.40
Floating-point processing power0.02938 TFLOPS0.4608 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 1.0 x16IGP
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 amount256 MBSystem Shared
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno 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 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 Model4.06.0
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 80 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 15 Watt

R6 Graphics has an age advantage of 7 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8400 GS and Radeon R6 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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