GeForce 8400 GS PCI vs GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)
GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
22
GeForce 8600 GT
+245%
76
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
333 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
4
8
Shading Units
32
4
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
16 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.268 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
2.268 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
G84
G98-400-U2
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
