GeForce 8400 GS and GeForce FX 5900 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce FX 5900 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G86
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0a
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A