GeForce 8400 GS PCI vs GeForce 8300 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Lower TDP (25W vs 40W)
GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (6.400GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
+46%
22
GeForce 8300 GS
15
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
333 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
1
8
Shading Units
8
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
16 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.268 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
2.268 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.69 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
40W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
G86
G98-400-U2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
