NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

1016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +10868%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI

0.022 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

1024

Shading Units

8

64

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x S-Video 1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G98

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G98-400-U2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

86 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

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