NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 315M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 315M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- 2.1x more core clock speed: 1212 MHz vs 580 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
- Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 115 vs 101
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1401 vs 1117
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1401 vs 1117
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 5 January 2011 vs 15 October 2008 |
| Core clock speed | 1212 MHz vs 580 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 65 nm |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 115 vs 101 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 1401 vs 1117 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 1401 vs 1117 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
- Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 14 Watt
- Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 55 vs 36
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 12 Watt vs 14 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 55 vs 36 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 315M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce 315M | NVIDIA GeForce 9400M |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 115 | 101 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 36 | 55 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 2910 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 1401 | 1117 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 1401 | 1117 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 0.537 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce 315M | NVIDIA GeForce 9400M | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 | Tesla |
| Code name | GT218 | C79MX |
| Launch date | 5 January 2011 | 15 October 2008 |
| Place in performance rating | 1641 | 1643 |
| Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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| Core clock speed | 1212 MHz | 580 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 16 | |
| Floating-point performance | 38.78 gflops | |
| Gigaflops | 73 | |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 65 nm |
| Pipelines | 16 | |
| Texture fill rate | 4.85 GTexel / s | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 14 Watt | 12 Watt |
| Transistor count | 260 million | 314 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI | No outputs |
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| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
API support |
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| DirectX | 10.1 | 10.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.1 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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| Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB / s | |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | |
| Memory type | GDDR3, DDR3 | |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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| HybridPower | ||
| Power management | 8.0 | |
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