GeForce 8400 GS and Emerald - video card comparison

GeForce 8400 GS

Emerald

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

G86

Emerald

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

459 MHz

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Floating-point performance

29.376 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

2,080 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

896

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

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Texture fill rate

3.6 billion/sec

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Memory type

DDR2

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Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

800 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

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Standard memory config per GPU

256 MB

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170