AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
792 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+4445%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
0.022 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Dec 2007
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
800
Shading Units
8
40
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.268 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.268 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
25W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G98
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
G98-400-U2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
