GeForce 8400 GS vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking216not rated
Place by popularity82not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.33no data
Power efficiency16.72no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameNavi 24G86
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 January 2022 (2 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 $29.99

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores102416
Core clock speed2610 MHz459 MHz
Boost clock speed2815 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,400 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)107 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate180.23.672
Floating-point processing power5.765 TFLOPS0.02938 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs648
Ray Tracing Cores16no data

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 4.0 x4PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone
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 typeGDDR6DDR2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB256 MB
Standard memory config per GPUno data256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2248 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.9 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.64.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL2.21.1
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA-1.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 6500 XT 9569
+6114%
8400 GS 154

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2022 17 April 2007
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 6 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 107 Watt 40 Watt

RX 6500 XT has an age advantage of 14 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1233.3% more advanced lithography process.

8400 GS, on the other hand, has 167.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce 8400 GS. We've got no test results to judge.


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