AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8400 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +12965%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 SE

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

GeForce 8400 SE

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Aug 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

16

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G86S

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

127 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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