Radeon E8950 and GeForce 8400M GS - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce 8400M GS
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Amethyst
G86M
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
May 2007
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-I
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
735 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
16
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
11 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
3.200
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR2 / GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A