GeForce 9800 GTX and GeForce 8400 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 9800 GTX
792
GeForce 8400 GS
156
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 8400 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G92
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
April 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
675 MHz
459 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
432.1 gflops
29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
16
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
40 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
43.2 billion/sec
3.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
Via Adapter
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A