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

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

24 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +365%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

0.02 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

8

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.080 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.68 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT218

G84-400-A2

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

Board Design

60W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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