NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)
AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
2544 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8400 GS
0.029 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290
+16620%
4.849 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 8400 GS
369
Radeon R9 290
+901%
3694
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2560
8
TMUs
160
4
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
275W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
Hawaii
G86-213-A2
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
438 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
