GeForce 9400 GT PCI and GeForce 8600M GT SLI - video card comparison
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
GeForce 8600M GT SLI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
G96C
NB8P-GS
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2008
October 2007
Interface
PCI
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Core clock speed
550 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
44.8 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
598 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
64
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.400
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Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10
CUDA
1.1
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OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
3.3
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Shader Model
4.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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