NVidia GeForce 8400M GT is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7400 for laptops and technologically a slower 8600M GS video card. The performance is slightly above the 7400 and therefore it can represent current games fluently with reduced details / resolutions. For people who play occasionally, it may be sufficient.
The particularity of this video card are the "Unified Shader". Pixel- and vertex-shaders do not exist any more but 16 of the so called stream processors do the graphic work.
One advantage of the GeForce 8000 series is the integrated PureVideo video processor. It can support the CPU in decoding H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, and WMV9 encoded videos in HD quality > PureVideo Product Comparison
Compared to desktop graphics adapters, the 8400M GT is a bit slower than the 8500 GT (because of the lower memory speed).
GeForce 8400M Series
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| Codename | G86M | |||||||||
| Pipelines | 16 - unified | |||||||||
| Core Speed | 450 MHz | |||||||||
| Shader Speed | 900 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Speed | 600 MHz | |||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | |||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR3 / GDDR2 | |||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 512 MB | |||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||
| API | DirectX 10, Shader 4.0 | |||||||||
| Power Consumption | 14 Watt | |||||||||
| Transistor Count | 210 Million | |||||||||
| Man. Technology | 80 nm | |||||||||
| Features | 900 MHZ Shader-Taktfrequenz, PureVideo Technologie (H.264, VC-1, MPEG2, WMV9 Decodierbeschleunigung), HDCP-fähig, PowerMizer 7.0 Energieverwaltung (dynamisches umschalten zwischen Leistung und Energiesparen), HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting), designed für Windows Vista, 16x Vollbild AA, 16x winkelunabhängiges AF, 128-Bit HDR Ausleuchtung mit AA, PCI-E 16x, OpenGL 2.1, Gigathread Technologie | |||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 09.05.2007 | |||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.nvidia.de | |||||||||
- Average benchmark valuesThe following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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| Doom 3 | 105 | 107 | 80 | 49 | ||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | |
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