AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 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 7950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 +13552%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

VS

GeForce 8400

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Dec 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1792

Shading Units

8

112

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

25W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x 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

Tahiti

GPU Name

G98

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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