NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 375W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS
0.029 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
+3617%
1.078 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1536MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
16
16
Shading Units
512
8
TMUs
64
4
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
-
-
-
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
40W
TDP
375W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GF100
G86-213-A2
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
