NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512 +437%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

GeForce 8400 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 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

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

2

48

Shading Units

16

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

40W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

G86

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

G86-213-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

240 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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