GeForce 8400 GS PCI vs GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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 170W)
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
3576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
22
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
+57809%
12740
Graphics Card
Dec 2007
Release Date
Sep 2021
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
333 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
5.328GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
28
8
Shading Units
3584
4
TMUs
112
4
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
2.268 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
2.268 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
170W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
GA104
G98-400-U2
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
65 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
