GeForce 8400 GS PCI vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
1592 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
22
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+12263%
2720
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
333 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
1
SM Count
-
8
Shading Units
1600
4
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.268 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
2.268 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
228W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
Cypress
G98-400-U2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
