GeForce 8400 GS PCI and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison

GeForce 8400 GS PCI

GeForce FX 5500

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

GT218

NV34 B1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

March 2004

Interface

PCI

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

520 MHz

270 MHz

Floating-point performance

39.36 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

Texture fill rate

4.160

1.080

Memory type

DDR3

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

332 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

5.312 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

9.0a

CUDA

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

4.1

Vulkan

N/A