GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGT218 (8400GS-225-B1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size57 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors260 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders16vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock520 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP25 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2010vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    2.08 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    4.16 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    39.36 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better