AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM 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

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.67GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 40W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 230 OEM +412%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

GT218

Caicos PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

40W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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