Intel GMA X4500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Comparative analysis of Intel GMA X4500 and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

Intel GMA X4500

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel GMA X4500

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 533 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 533 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel GMA X4500	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 5.0	Tesla
Code name	Eaglelake	G96C
Launch date	1 September 2008	27 August 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	533 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt	50 Watt
Floating-point performance		44.8 gflops
Pipelines		16
Texture fill rate		4.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count		314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCI
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	2.0	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2