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