NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (6.400GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR2
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
40W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
NV10
G86-213-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
7.0
3.3
OpenGL
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
