GeForce 8400 GS
NVIDIA has expanded its range with a new budget product GeForce 8400 GS. The graphics chip designer and its partners now had a complete line of DirectX 10 graphics cards, from the GeForce 8400 GS to the 8800. A reasonable compromise between the GeForce 8400 GS characteristics and its cost allowed NVIDIA and partners to create a good video card that allowed budget gamers not to stay away from the upcoming stream of DX10 games and guaranteed compatibility of the video subsystem with Windows Vista. In addition, support for NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology with HD video decoding and post-processing hardware makes it easy to watch HD DVD or Blu-ray movies.
Belonging to the class of entry-level products led to the reduction of the memory bus width to 64 bits. As for the frequency formula, NVIDIA regulated the following values for the GeForce 8400 GS: 450/400 (800) MHz. 16 universal streaming pipelines operate at 900 MHz.
Specifications NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
| Name | GeForce 8400GS |
| Core | G86 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.08 |
| Transistors (million) | 210 |
| Core frequency | 450 |
| Memory frequency (DDR) | 400 (800) |
| Bus and memory type | GDDR2 64 Bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 6.4 |
| Unified shader blocks | 16 |
| Frequency of unified shader units | 900 |
| TMU per conveyor | 8 |
| ROP | 4 |
| textures per clock | 8 |
| textures per pass | 8 |
| Shader Model | 4.0 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 1800 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 3600 |
| DirectX | 10.0 |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | SS&MS - 16x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x |
| Memory | 256 |
| Interface | PCI-E |
| RAMDAC | 2x400 |
NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS is a functional alternative to integrated controllers, as well as the most affordable adapter for any non-gaming systems.