AMD Radeon R3 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R3 Graphics 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 40 Watt
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 304 vs 99
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 95 vs 72
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1745 vs 800
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1745 vs 800
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 28 January 2015 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 304 vs 99
PassMark - G2D Mark 95 vs 72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1745 vs 800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1745 vs 800

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400

  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 267 MHz
Core clock speed 580 MHz vs 267 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
304
99
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
95
72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1745
800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1745
800
Name AMD Radeon R3 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400
PassMark - G3D Mark 304 99
PassMark - G2D Mark 95 72
Geekbench - OpenCL 1492
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.343
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 106.771
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.35
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 8.234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 21.88
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 587
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 750
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1745 800
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 587
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 750
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1745 800

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R3 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla
Code name Beema MCP7A
Launch date 28 January 2015 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1599 1598
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 600 MHz
Core clock speed 267 MHz 580 MHz
Floating-point performance 153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 128
Texture fill rate 4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 930 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCI

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Memory type System Shared