NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 610

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 43% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 567 MHz
  • Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 6.5 billion / sec vs 4.16 GTexel / s
  • 3x more pipelines: 48 vs 16
  • 4x better floating-point performance: 155.5 gflops vs 39.36 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1024 MB vs 512 MB
  • Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1155 vs 1023
  • Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1155 vs 1023
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 April 2012 vs 4 December 2007
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 567 MHz
Texture fill rate 6.5 billion / sec vs 4.16 GTexel / s
Pipelines 48 vs 16
Floating-point performance 155.5 gflops vs 39.36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 1024 MB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1155 vs 1023
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1155 vs 1023

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

  • Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 29 Watt
  • 666x more memory clock speed: 666 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 29 Watt
Memory clock speed 666 MHz vs 1.8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1155
1023
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1155
1023
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark 322
PassMark - G2D Mark 131
Geekbench - OpenCL 1283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.471
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 77.99
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.233
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 4.053
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 835
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1155 1023
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 835
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1155 1023
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 87

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla
Code name GF119 G98
Launch date 2 April 2012 4 December 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $39.99
Place in performance rating 1626 1650
Price now $39.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 10.13

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 567 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 155.5 gflops 39.36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 102 °C
Pipelines 48 16
Texture fill rate 6.5 billion / sec 4.16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI, VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Height 2.7" (6.9 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm) 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1024 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1.8 GB/s 666 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
CUDA