GeForce 8400 vs HD Graphics (Haswell)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1130not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7.5 Haswell (2012)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameHaswell GT1G98
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2012 (12 years ago)4 December 2007 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$69.78

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 cores108
Core clock speed200 MHz540 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data210 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.320
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0208 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 4 December 2007
Chip lithography 22 nm 65 nm

HD Graphics (Haswell) has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 195.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Haswell) and GeForce 8400. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Haswell) is a notebook card while GeForce 8400 is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Haswell)
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