GeForce 8400 GS and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G86
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
96
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
27.84
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A