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NVIDIA GeForce 8400

The NVIDIA GeForce 8400 is a graphics card released on December 4, 2007 using a 65 nm process. It has 8 shading units, 256 MB of DDR2 memory on a 64-bit bus, 8.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 540 MHz and a 25 W board power rating. It scores 81 in the PassMark G3D benchmark.

G98S65 nm

8/10 key specs recorded · 20 facts

Depth: 22 recorded fields, 1 PassMark workload

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

8cores

Memory

256 MB

DDR2 · 64-bit

Boost clock

n/a

540 MHz base

Board power

25 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce 8400 scores 81 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 14.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,461), measured across 50 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 160.

PassMark G3D Mark

Rank #2,461
Faster than 14.6% of 2,658 GPUs
50 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 2 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 1.9% of 1,675 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 averages DirectX 9 2 fps, across 50 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

First benchmarked 2009-04-09

Samples 50

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS, NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT, NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename G98S

Chip Not recorded

Process node 65 nm

Transistors 210 M

Die size 86 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce 8400 uses the G98S graphics processor, is manufactured on a 65 nm process, contains 210 million transistors and has a die size of 86 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 8

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 4

Render output units (ROPs) 4

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 8400 has 8 shading units, 4 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce 8400 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce 8400. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce 8400.