GeForce 8400 GS PCI vs GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
22
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
+322%
93
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
333 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
4
8
Shading Units
32
4
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
16 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.268 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
2.268 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
G84
G98-400-U2
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
169 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
