NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT +761%

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

2

112

Shading Units

16

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

125W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GT218

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

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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