NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9400 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS +220%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

16

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

16 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

127 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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