NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

3824 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +48934%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce 8400 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

16

120

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G86

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G86-213-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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