ATI FireMV 2250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
8 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 32W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Jul 2010
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
1
-
Shading Units
8
4
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.080 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
19.68 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
25W
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
RV516
GPU Name
GT218
-
GPU Variant
8400GS-225-B1
R500
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
