AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X +8761%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

VS

GeForce 8400M GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2007

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

25.60 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G86

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

NB8M-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

11W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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