NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT 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

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

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

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +106%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

0.045 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT218

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GT218-670-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

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 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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