GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 8400 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 8400 GS
156
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 8400 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
540 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
16
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 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)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A