NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+392%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
2
64
Shading Units
16
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
40W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GT218
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
