NVIDIA GeForce 8400 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

8 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS +80%

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

2

8

Shading Units

16

4

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

8

-

16 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.160 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

2.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

20.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

G84

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

86 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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