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GeForce 8400 GS 512MB vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

The GeForce 8400 GS 512MB uses a 80 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 650 MHz. The DDR2 memory runs at a speed of 400 MHz on this particular model. It features 16 SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4350, which has core clock speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 memory. It features 80(16x5) SPUs along with 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350 22 Watts
GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 40 Watts
Difference: 18 Watts (82%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 4350 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce 8400 GS 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4350 8000 MB/sec
GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8400 GS 512MB is a little bit (more or less 13%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 5200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350 4600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 600 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 8400 GS 512MB is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 2600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350 2300 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 300 (13%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8400 GS 512MB Radeon HD 4350
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2007 Sep 30, 2008
Code Name G86 RV710
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 575 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 1000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 22 watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 8000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 5200 Mtexels/sec 4600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2600 Mpixels/sec 2300 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 80(16x5)
Texture Mapping Units 8 8
Render Output Units 4 4
Bus Type DDR2 DDR2
Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 55 nm
Transistors 210 million 242 million
Bus PCIe x16, PCI PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Comments

4 Responses to “GeForce 8400 GS 512MB vs Radeon HD 4350”
Nole says:

Hi, thanks for the excellent comparison. I had ge force 8400 gs (512 MB, GDDR2) installed on my pc. In windows experience rating this card was rated 3.9 (lowest score in that rating as well). Then, I replaced ge force with the ati radeon hd 4350 (1 GB hyper memory, 512 MB DDR3) and, on my surprise, the windows experience rating came down to 3.3. However, it seems that some games that were unplayable with the ge force card I can (with lot of patience) play with the ati card.
So, I remain confused but determined to get some "proper" card asap. Regards

admin says:

Weird... I wouldn't take the Windows Experience thing too seriously then. 😛
Both those cards are pretty slow though... I personally have a GeForce 9800GT and even though it's quite old now, it's waaaaaaay faster than both of those.
http://www.hwcompare.com/3353/geforce-9800-gt-512mb-vs-radeon-hd-4350/
You might need a new power supply though. 🙂

hardik says:

nvidia geforce 8400 gs 512 MB @nd 1GB both are slow ATI RADEON 4350 is best than nvidia geforce 8400 gs 512 MB @nd 1GB ATI RADEON 'zinda bad'nvidia murdabad

salas says:

hi i have two cards, 8400 gs 512 and ati radeon 4350 and when i test them in the same machine i found that the 4350 is better than 8400 GS

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