AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 55% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 580 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm

Launch date	8 July 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 580 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400

7.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.807
PassMark - G3D Mark		99
PassMark - G2D Mark		72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		800

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Barts	MCP7A
Launch date	8 July 2011	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$520
Place in performance rating	1607	1605
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	2x 1120
Texture fill rate	2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	304 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5