NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce 8400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1656 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +18566%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce 8400

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

8

104

TMUs

4

56

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G98

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

148W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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