NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
1008 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+6087%
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1024
Shading Units
16
64
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
40W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GT218
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
