NVIDIA's 8400GS trounces ATI's HD 2400

While the HD 2400 or 8400GS are neither the flashiest, or the fastest, of the recent new-generation video cards from ATI and NVIDIA, they are nonetheless very important offerings from both companies trying to bring consumers into the DirectX 10 fold. With Windows Vista, and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray technology slowly being embraced by the PC using masses, there will be no shortage of competition for the lower-end video card market.

Initial benchmarks have been reported, and it seems that the preliminary results favor the 8400GS over the HD 2400. Although the 8400GS is clocked higher, at 450/400, than the competiting HD 2400, which is clocked at 520/500, the 8400GS has a respectable lead in the synthetic benchmarking program 3DMark06. The HD 2400 is reported to reach a score of somewhere around the neighbourhood of 1250 3DMarks, whereas the 8400GS comes closer to 1600 3DMarks. A possible reason for the subpar performance of the HD 2400 could be that it has 4 texture mapping units, whereas the 8400GS has twice that many, with 8 texture mapping units on the 8400GS. the image below willl make you believe it is not true. if you dont believe me, at least believe nvidia.

LOL I love how that chart makes it look as if the 8400GS is over twice as fast at the HD2400 when infact its only 368 3DMark06 points faster.

Thought this thread had been necro'd. Oh how I lol'd though.
I had an 8600gt, loved it till it ended up dying on me

wtf!?

LMAO..!

For me it was the last Nvidia card I owned as well, because I switched to the 5770.

Well, when I had the 8600gt my computer was also running windows xp, 4gb of DDR2 ram, and a dual core Athlon at 2.1GHz. It still ran great though, of course the computer was originally a prebuilt so the 800MHz was brought down...considerably and there was no option to overclock.

I would love to try out a fuzion mobo at some point, would there be a benefit from using a radeon 5770 and a 460 together in that case?

WTF? Am i in a parallel universe or are the 8400 and 2400 still really old?

I googled the first complete sentence:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/news-aro [...] 400-a.html

It looks like someone got butt raped four years ago and liked it so much they've come over to this forum for another shafting!

Looks more like a spambot, probably one of Nvidia's. They had to go back that far to find the last time they beat ATI in a benchmark.

Sadly it isn't a bot. There's another thread where they were preaching against the evils of overclocking.

I meant real gaming benchmarks not breakfast frying ones.

Just in case eyefinity needs reminding.

I doubt it gets hot enough to cook that either.

starting to cry I'm laughin' so hard.

^
what, he's out for points only.?
there should be some 'erroneous reply or false thread' tag system or some related idea.
once tagged you (dock 'um then block 'um)..

When posts or threads are deleted any and all points are lost as well, this also goes for those that post in threads that go on to be deleted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8

but points is what it's all about MM...
you know getting your name out there so you can show your trolling friends that you know something.
also show it to your on-line girlfriend that lives in another hemisphere that doesn't even speak your language to ask you for help because you know it all.

DISCLAIMER:
I do not intentionally mean to hurt OP's feelings or any other troll 'trollin' this thread.. excuse the pun..
if your on-line girlfriend doesn't speak the same language, please use google translator. thanks.
I received NO money from google for that remark.

I guess it's not about passing knowledge and assisting other techies, that would be "to helpful in the world of computing" by allowing people
to build, maintain, test and 'become individualist', save money so on, so on.
well damn if that's the case, I need a good porn site..

Who said I took this seriously ? The Herb ? Watch out, it can stagnate ya'

The whole thing piqued my curiosity. I have a 2400 hd in a dell 530 I bought 3 years ago. Its now my htpc. Gave them 60 dollars extra I believe back then.

The 2400 worth that much then?

To be fair, the room temperature could have been below 64c. Inside of a computer case the temp is going to be that or above. It was also (obviously) open, so the air circulation is incomparable.

Lastly; why not stress it with Furmark?


Wanna see a true test. FERMI WILL COOK MY BREAKFAST.