NVIDIA GeForce 8400 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +2861%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

30

8

Shading Units

240

4

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

16 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.160 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

2.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

20.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

236W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

86 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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