NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8400 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

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

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +2044%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 SE

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce 8400 SE

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

2

240

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

236W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

G86S

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

127 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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