NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +220%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce 9400 GT

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

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G86

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

127 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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