GeForce GT 530 OEM vs 8400 GS

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1256	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.69	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	G86	GF108
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	14 May 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$29.99	no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	96
Core clock speed	459 MHz	700 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	585 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.672	11.20
Floating-point processing power	0.02938 TFLOPS	0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm	145 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR2	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1 GB
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB/s	28.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

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

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.0	5.1
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	2.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 April 2007	14 May 2011
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1 GB
Chip lithography	80 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	50 Watt

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