NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

GeForce 8400 GS videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 17 April 2007. At the time of release, the videocard cost $29.99. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G86.

Core clock speed - 459 MHz. Texture fill rate - 3.6 billion / sec. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 29.376 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 210 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 40 Watt.

Memory type: DDR2. Maximum RAM amount - 256 MB. Memory bus width - 64 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 6.4 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38582
156
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
24
Geekbench
OpenCL
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
345616
1791
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823 Frames
224 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823.000 Fps
224.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
445 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
445.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 156
PassMark - G2D Mark 24
Geekbench - OpenCL 1791
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 224 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 224.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 445 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 445.000 Fps

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G86
Launch date 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $29.99
Place in performance rating 1695
Price now $39.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 3.68

Technical info

Core clock speed 459 MHz
Floating-point performance 29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt
Transistor count 210 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Technologies

SLI