NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +4189%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 SE

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce 8400 SE

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G86S

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

520 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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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