AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 8400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2040 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +17942%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400

0.021 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce 8400

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Dec 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

8

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G98

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

25W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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