GeForce 7025 + nForce 630a vs 8400

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1381not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.58no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG98C67
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 December 2007 (17 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$69.78 no data

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 cores8no data
Core clock speed540 MHz425 MHz
Number of transistors210 million112 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.3200.43
Floating-point processing power0.0208 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs81

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 2.0 x16PCI
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sno 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 VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 December 2007 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm

GeForce 8400 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8400 and GeForce 7025 + nForce 630a. We've got no test results to judge.


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