AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce 8400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2296 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +29304%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce 8400

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/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

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

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 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G98

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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