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GeForce 8400 GS 512MB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

The GeForce 8400 GS 512MB comes with a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 400 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 80 nm design. It is comprised of 16 SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which features clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 40 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 150 Watts
Difference: 110 Watts (275%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8400 GS 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 294912 MB/sec
GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 6400 MB/sec
Difference: 288512 (4508%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be quite a bit (approximately 3285%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8400 GS 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 5200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 170800 (3285%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the GeForce 8400 GS 512MB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 2600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 85400 (3285%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8400 GS 512MB Radeon RX 5600
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2007 January 2020
Code Name G86 Navi 10 XE
Memory 512 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 6400 MB/sec 294912 MB/sec
Texel Rate 5200 Mtexels/sec 176000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2600 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 16 2048
Texture Mapping Units 8 128
Render Output Units 4 64
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR6
Bus Width 64-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 7 nm
Transistors 210 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe x16, PCI PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8400 GS 512MB

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Radeon RX 5600

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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