GeForce 8400 SE vs Radeon HD 6230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8400 SE and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.67GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 SE
29
Radeon HD 6230
+258%
104
Graphics Card
Aug 2008
Release Date
Jul 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
80
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
19W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86S
GPU Name
Park
-
GPU Variant
Park S3 LP
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
59 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