NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

0.045 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition +106%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

16

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

4.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

44.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

169 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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