NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 5690
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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 64W)
ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS
0.029 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5690
+2037%
0.62 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Feb 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
400
8
TMUs
20
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.200 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.50 GTexel/s
-
-
-
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
620.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
40W
TDP
64W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Redwood
G86-213-A2
GPU Variant
Redwood XT
(215-0757002)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
