AMD Radeon HD 8400 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8400 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

28 points
315 points
1024% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

1 FPS
8 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

0 FPS
6 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

0 FPS
5 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
5 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1796 points
5938 points
230% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1494 points
5207 points
248% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1404 points
6089 points
333% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1494 points
5261 points
252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

25 W
32% slightly lower TDP
33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.4 Gigapixels/s
8.99 Gigapixels/s
274% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

4.8 Gigatexels/s
17.98 Gigatexels/s
274% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

128
384
200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

8
16
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
8
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

556th of 586
372nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon HD 8400 vs GeForce 840M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce 840M beats the Radeon HD 8400 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8400 has a slightly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce 840M at 33 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce 840M is faster than the Radeon HD 8400.

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