Quadro T600 Mobile vs GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated296
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data31.85
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGT218TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores16896
Core clock speed520 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1410 MHz
Number of transistors260 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate4.16078.96
Floating-point processing power0.03936 TFLOPS2.527 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs856

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.27.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm

T600 Mobile has an age advantage of 13 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 and Quadro T600 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 is a desktop card while Quadro T600 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2
NVIDIA Quadro T600 Mobile
Quadro T600 Mobile

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