NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +9615%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

16

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

New Zealand

-

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

40W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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