NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

24 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT +245%

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

0.022 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

1

32

Shading Units

8

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G98

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

86 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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