NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +2727%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

0.022 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

1

240

Shading Units

8

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

236W

TDP

25W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G98

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

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

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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