NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS vs AMD FirePro W4300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 50W)
AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS
0.029 TFLOPS
FirePro W4300
+4824%
1.428 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Dec 2015
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
768
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.64 GTexel/s
-
-
-
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1428 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
89.28 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Bonaire
G86-213-A2
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
