NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

8 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS +90%

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

0.02 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

1

16

Shading Units

8

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.080 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.68 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

25W

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

G84

GPU Name

GT218

-

GPU Variant

8400GS-225-B1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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