GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameRV620GT218
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 December 2007 (16 years ago)12 July 2010 (14 years ago)

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 cores4016
Core clock speed600 MHz520 MHz
Number of transistors181 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate2.4004.160
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS0.03936 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2DDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s6.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2007 12 July 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm

8400 GS Rev. 3 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

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