NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s).

NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 589 MHz vs 580 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 140 vs 101

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 November 2009 vs 15 October 2008
Core clock speed	589 MHz vs 580 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	140 vs 101

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

2.6x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 31 Watt
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 55 vs 41
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1117 vs 1052
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1117 vs 1052

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 31 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	55 vs 41
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117 vs 1052
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117 vs 1052

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

140

101

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1052

1117

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1052

1117

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
PassMark - G2D Mark	41	55
PassMark - G3D Mark	140	101
Geekbench - OpenCL	2724
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1052	1117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1052	1117
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		0.537

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	C79MX
Launch date	27 November 2009	15 October 2008
Place in performance rating	1645	1643
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.71 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	666 MHz
Memory type	DDR2