NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 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 GT 430 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 49W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 +827%

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

GeForce 8400 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

2

96

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

40W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G86

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

G86-213-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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