Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 4 EVGA 1GB Edition | Intel G43 Express Chipset |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 3273% | 5550% |
| Hitman 3 | 4288% | 7250% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 2985% | 5068% |
| The Medium | 4109% | 6950% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 3273% | 5550% |
| FIFA 21 | 1601% | 2750% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 2885% | 4900% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 4646% | 7850% |
| Genshin Impact | 3273% | 5550% |
| Far Cry 6 | 4781% | 8075% |
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 G43 Express Chipset.
The G43 Express Chipset was released over a year more recently than the 8400 GS, and so the G43 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 G43 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 G43 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 and the G43 Express Chipset requires 24 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 350 Watts for the 8400 GS. The 8400 GS requires 16 Watts more than the G43 Express Chipset to run. The difference is not significant enough for the 8400 GS to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the G43 Express Chipset.
| Core Speed | 520 MHz | vs |  | 800 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 | | 1 |
| DVI Connections | 1 | | vs | 0 | |
| HDMI Connections | 1 | | vs | 0 | |
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 40 Watts | vs | | 24 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 G43 Express Chipset comes embedded on the Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo CPUS and features an Integrated GPU called Intel GMA X4500. Due to its characteristics (e.g. Shared Memory) the performance is very limited but might be enough to play today's games at low settings excluding, however, very demanding games like Metro 2033 or The Witcher II, that are unplayable, even at the lowest settings. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | - | ||||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||