AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2296 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +29070%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

0.02 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2010

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2304

Shading Units

8

144

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.080 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.68 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GT218

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

8400GS-225-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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