NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.67GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 40W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM +412%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

16

Shading Units

160

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Caicos

-

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

40W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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