GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 sales 12 July 2010. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla 2.0 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 25 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT218
Market segmentDesktop
Release date12 July 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed520 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors260 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate4.160of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.03936 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs4of 192 (GA100)
TMUs8of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length170 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed400 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


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AMD equivalent

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