NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
0.045 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+5944%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2008
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
1600
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
4.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
44.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
228W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
