NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +11965%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

0.02 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/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

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.080 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.68 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 DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GT218

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

8400GS-225-B1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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