GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
44.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
16
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
4.400
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 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
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A