Radeon 535 Mobile vs GeForce 8400M G
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | GCN 3.0 (2014−2017) |
| GPU code name | G86M | Polaris 24 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 9 May 2007 (17 years ago) | 18 April 2017 (7 years ago) |
| Current price | $1279 | 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 | 8 | 384 |
| Core clock speed | 400 MHz | 730 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1024 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 210 million | 1,550 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 10 Watt | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 3.200 | 24.58 |
| Floating-point performance | 12.8 gflops | 784.1 gflops |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on GeForce 8400M G and Radeon 535 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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 3.0 x8 |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | 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 | GDDR3 / GDDR2 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | 2 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 600 MHz | 4500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | 36 GB/s |
| 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 | No outputs | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | 12 (12_0) |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | 6.3 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2.131 |
| CUDA | 1.1 | no data |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 9 May 2007 | 18 April 2017 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | 2 GB |
| Chip lithography | 80 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 10 Watt | 50 Watt |
We couldn't decide between GeForce 8400M G and Radeon 535 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.
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