AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1400 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +10628%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce 8400

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Dec 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1408

Shading Units

8

88

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

25W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G98

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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