NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT 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 12.80GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT +68%

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

0.045 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

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

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96C

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

121 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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