Radeon HD 8400 vs R7 250E

Place in performance ranking	634	1135
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.11	0.08
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	Kabini
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	20 December 2013 (10 years ago)	23 May 2013 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$109	no data
Current price	$599 (5.5x MSRP)	$78

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

R7 250E has 38% better value for money than HD 8400.

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 cores	512	128
Core clock speed	800 MHz	600 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	25 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.60	3.200
Floating-point performance	819.2 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon R7 250E and Radeon HD 8400 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 3.0 x16	IGP
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R7 250E 4.28
+539%

HD 8400 0.67

R7 250E outperforms HD 8400 by 539% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

R7 250E 1970
+391%

HD 8400 401

R7 250E outperforms HD 8400 by 391% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.