NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +11476%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M G

0.013 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce 8400M G

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

8

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.80 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G86

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

NB8M-SE

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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