NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
+6203%
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400 GS
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
768
Shading Units
16
48
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
40W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
G86
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
G86-213-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
228 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
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
