NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +10119%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-I

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

6.400GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

25.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

11W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GM204

NB8M-GS

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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