NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2008−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameM92G86M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 January 2009 (15 years old)9 May 2007 (16 years old)
Current priceno data$1279

Technical specs

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 cores808
Core clock speed500 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors242 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0003.200
Floating-point performance80 gflops12.8 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 4530 and GeForce 8400M G 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.

InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

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 typeGDDR3, DDR2, DDR3GDDR3 / GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data1.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 9 January 2009 9 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm

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