Tesla M6 vs GeForce 8400

Place in the ranking	1462	391
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.59	11.46
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	G98	GM204
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	4 December 2007 (18 years ago)	30 August 2015 (10 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 cores	8	1536
Core clock speed	540 MHz	930 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1180 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.320	113.3
Floating-point processing power	0.0208 TFLOPS	3.625 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	64
TMUs	8	96
L1 Cache	no data	576 KB
L2 Cache	16 KB	2 MB

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	1-slot	MXM Module
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	DDR2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	160.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.4
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	1.1	5.2

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GeForce 8400 0.19

Tesla M6 14.88
+7732%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 8400 81
Samples: 50

Tesla M6 6224
+7584%

Samples: 7

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.19	14.88
Recency	4 December 2007	30 August 2015
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	100 Watt

GeForce 8400 has 300% lower power consumption.

Tesla M6, on the other hand, has a 7732% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132% more advanced lithography process.

The Tesla M6 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 8400 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 8400 is a desktop graphics card while Tesla M6 is a workstation one.