NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition +772%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

0.022 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

266 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

64

Shading Units

8

32

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

G98

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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