GeForce 8400 GS and Radeon HD 5950 - video card comparison

GeForce 8400 GS

Radeon HD 5950

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G86

Hemlock

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

-

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

459 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

29.376 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

210 million

2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

1440

Power consumption (TDP)

40 Watt

302 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.6 billion/sec

52.20

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

256 MB

-

Display Connectors

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

2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

1.1

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A