Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
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| Game | GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 4 EVGA 1GB Edition | Intel Q43 Express Chipset |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3273% | 5180% |
| Hitman 3 | 4288% | 6769% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 2985% | 4729% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 3273% | 5180% |
| FIFA 21 | 1601% | 2564% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 4646% | 7330% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 2885% | 4573% |
| Genshin Impact | 3273% | 5180% |
| The Medium | 4109% | 6489% |
| Far Cry 6 | 4781% | 7540% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 4 EVGA 1GB Edition are significantly better than the Intel Q43 Express Chipset.
The Q43 Express Chipset was released over a year more recently than the 8400 GS, and so the Q43 Express Chipset is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the 8400 GS.
Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
The 8400 GS has 1024 MB video memory, but the Q43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The 8400 GS has 16 Shader Processing Units but the Q43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 4 EVGA 1GB Edition requires 40 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Q43 Express Chipset. We would recommend a PSU with at least 350 Watts for the 8400 GS.
| Core Speed | 520 MHz | vs |  | 533 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | Tesla GT218 | Eaglelake | |||
| OC Potential | Poor |
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| Driver Support | Poor |
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| Release Date | 17 Apr 2007 | vs | | 01 Aug 2008 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| 1366x768 | - | |
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| 1600x900 | 2.1
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| 1920x1080 | 1.4
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| 2560x1440 | 0.9
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| 3840x2160 | 0.5
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| Memory | 1024 MB | | vs | N/A | |
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| Memory Speed | 600 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Memory Bus | 64 Bit | | vs | - | |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | | DDR3 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 9.6GB/sec | | vs | - | |
| L2 Cache | 0 KB | |
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| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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| Shader Processing Units | 16 | | vs | - | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 1% | | vs | - | |
| Technology | 40nm | | vs | - | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 8 | | vs | - | |
| Texture Rate | 4.2 GTexel/s | | vs | - | |
| Render Output Units | 4 | | vs | - | |
| Pixel Rate | 2.1 GPixel/s | | vs | - | |
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| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 2560x1600 | | vs | - | |
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| VGA Connections | 1 | | vs | 0 | |
| DVI Connections | 1 | | vs | 0 | |
| HDMI Connections | 1 | | vs | 0 | |
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
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| Max Power | 40 Watts | - | |||
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| Recommended PSU | 350 Watts & 18 Amps | - | |||
| DirectX | 10.1 | | vs | 10 | |
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| Shader Model | 4.1 | | vs | 4.0 | |
| Open GL | 3.3 | | vs | 2.1 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | no | |
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| Recommended Processor | Intel Celeron D 360 | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | 3 GB | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1024x768 | | - | ||
| Performance Value |  | ||||
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| Mini Review | Overview GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 4 EVGA 1GB Edition is a special edition of NVIDIA's Entry-Level GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 4 EVGA 1GB Edition, created by EVGA. Overclock: Central Unit The Central Unit still runs at 520MHz. Overclock: Memory Clock The Operating Memory Clock is now of 600MHz while the Frame Buffer was doubled to 1GB: a gimmick which doesn't yield any performance boost and can be considered market to lure consumers into paying more for the same product. Cooling Solution The Cooling System remains the same. Performance Benchmarks indicate a 3% performance over the reference GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 4. | Intel Q43 Express Chipset comes embedded on the Intel Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo CPUS and features an Integrated GPU called Intel GMA X4500. Various Intel Chipsets come with the Intel GMA X4500 but this one (and the Q45) seem to deliver the best performance. However, due to its characteristics (e.g. Shared Memory) the performance is still very limited but might be enough to play today's games at low or medium settings excluding, however, very demanding games like Metro 2033 or The Witcher II, that are probably unplayable, even at the lowest settings. Note 1: Intel GMA X4500 does support DirectX 10 but even the most forgiving games might be unplayable due to the demand level. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | - | ||||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||