NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 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 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS
0.029 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 230
+437%
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
6
16
Shading Units
48
8
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
40W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
G94B
G86-213-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
196 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
