GeForce 8400 GS PCI vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
56 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
22
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+772%
192
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
333 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
8
8
Shading Units
64
4
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
16 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.268 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
2.268 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
G94
G98-400-U2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
240 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
