AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8400 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +3031%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 SE

0.029 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce 8400 SE

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

32bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

16

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G86S

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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