NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 4.9x more core clock speed: 2235 MHz vs 459 MHz
  • 358.3x more texture fill rate: 1,290 GTexel/s vs 3.6 billion / sec
  • 1024x more pipelines: 16384 vs 16
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 80 nm
  • 96x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 64% higher memory clock speed: 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 800 MHz
  • 54x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1297 vs 24
  • 245.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 38287 vs 156
  • 177.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 317791 vs 1791
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 2235 MHz vs 459 MHz
Texture fill rate 1,290 GTexel/s vs 3.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 16384 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1297 vs 24
PassMark - G3D Mark 38287 vs 156
Geekbench - OpenCL 317791 vs 1791

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

  • 11.3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 450 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 450 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1297
24
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
38287
156
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
317791
1791
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
PassMark - G2D Mark 1297 24
PassMark - G3D Mark 38287 156
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 582.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 98.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 178.756
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2968.159
Geekbench - OpenCL 317791 1791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 0
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 224
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 445
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 445

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Tesla
Code name AD102 G86
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 13 1695
Launch price (MSRP) $29.99
Price now $39.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 3.68

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2520 MHz
Core clock speed 2235 MHz 459 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 80 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,290 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 82.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines 16384 16
Pixel fill rate 443.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 1,290 GTexel/s 3.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 450 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 76300 million 210 million
Floating-point performance 29.376 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Triple-slot
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 304 mm, 12 inches 170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin None
Width 137 mm, 5.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 10.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 1,008 GB/s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6X DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU 256 MB

Technologies

SLI