NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 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

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

56 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition +860%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

0.02 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Jul 2010

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

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.080 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.68 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GT218

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

8400GS-225-B1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

57 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_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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