GeForce 8400 GS PCI vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
1656 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
22
GeForce GTX 970
+17718%
3920
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
333 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
-
8
Shading Units
1664
4
TMUs
104
4
ROPs
56
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
2.268 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
2.268 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
148W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
GM204
G98-400-U2
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
