NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 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 GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +13468%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

GeForce 8400 GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

2

1152

Shading Units

16

72

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G86

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

G86-213-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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