NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce 8400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +60566%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce 8400

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

8

112

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G98

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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