NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G86 G98
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 210 million 210 million
Die size 127 mm² 86 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 1st, 2008 Jan 20th, 2009
Generation GeForce 8 Quadro NVS
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 26 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 459 MHz 550 MHz
Shader clock 918 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 6.400 GB/s 11.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 16 8
TMUs 8 4
ROPs 4 4
SM count 2 1
Cache L2 16 KB 16 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 1.836 GPixel/s 2.200 GPixel/s
Texture rate 3.672 GTexel/s 2.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 29.38 GFLOPS 22.40 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 50 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors None None
Board number P413 SKU 7, P413 SKU 10 P737

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

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