NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +6013%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

0.022 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

1

480

Shading Units

8

60

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G98

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

86 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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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