NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

5872 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +51976%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

16

184

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT218

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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