NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 18% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 459 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 38 vs 24
Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 620 vs 445
Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 620 vs 445

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2008 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	38 vs 24
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	620 vs 445
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	620 vs 445

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

2x more pipelines: 16 vs 8
Around 41% better floating-point performance: 29.376 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 156 vs 80

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	16 vs 8
Floating-point performance	29.376 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	156 vs 80

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

156

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

620

445

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

620

445

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	80	156
PassMark - G2D Mark	38	24
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	10.49
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	620	445
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	620	445
Geekbench - OpenCL		1791
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		224
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		224

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G98	G86
Launch date	1 June 2008	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$22.99	$29.99
Place in performance rating	1692	1695
Price now	$22.99	$39.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	5.67	3.68
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	459 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops	29.376 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	8	16
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	3.6 billion / sec
Transistor count	210 million	210 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		40 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		170 mm
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
SLI