NVIDIA GeForce 8400 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce 8400

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +60566%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

28

8

Shading Units

3584

4

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

16 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.160 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

2.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

20.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

86 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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