NVIDIA announcement yesterday new video card for the retail market : GeForce 8400 GS, which was already available in OEM- market from April (this year). The basic GeForce 8400 GS mission is to propose the directX 10 support for $50-55. Let us note that Radeon HD 2400 Pro will be proposed on the price from $45; however, NVIDIA considered that GeForce 8400 GS could be placed between Radeon HD 2400 Pro and Radeon HD 2400 XT;
Let us recall that in characteristics this new card is very close to GeForce 8500 GT, But with reduced to 64 bits memory system bus . Standard video card GeForce 8400 GS has this form:
NVIDIA Partners will release different GeForce 8400 GS modifications : with different memory volume (128 mb. or 256 mb.), with high frequencies or with passive cooling system. If we consider that GeForce 8400 GS support the technology pureVideo HD, which allow to accelerate video (high resolution) decoding by hardware , then the noiseless versions GeForce 8400 GS for sure will find place in compact multimedia systems. In addition , some video card version will support HDMI interface .
The frequency characteristics Of geForce 8400 GS are already known: 450 MHz for core, 900 MHz for shader domain and 800 MHz DDR for the memory. The number of stream processors is equal to sixteen. This card use the memory 64- bit system bus . Related Products :
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