NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
VS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
VS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

1089
Place in performance rating
781
2.38
Value for money (0-100)
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Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
G86
Code name
R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
17 April 2007 (14 years ago)
Release date
14 May 2007 (14 years ago)
$29.99
Launch price (MSRP)
$399
$78 (2.6x MSRP)
Price now
no data
0.05
Value for money
no data
G86
GPU code name
R600
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

16
Pipelines
320
459 MHz
Core clock speed
743 MHz
210 million
Transistor count
720 million
80 nm
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
215 Watt
3.6 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
11.89
29.376 gflops
Floating-point performance
475.5 gflops
16
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
210 million
Number of transistors
720 million
40 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
215 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
170 mm
Length
241 mm
None
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
+
SLI options
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT can be seen in this section.

DDR2
Memory type
GDDR3
256 MB
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
512 Bit
800 MHz
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
6.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
106.0 GB/s
256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS or ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

Less power consumption (40 Watt vs 215 Watt)

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

2.51% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (320 vs 16)

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 256 MB)

More memory bandwidth (106.0 GB/s vs 6.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS or ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT .

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS versus ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT performance benchmarks comparison

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