NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 405 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 405 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 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 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 56 vs 55
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 120 vs 101

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 15 October 2008
Core clock speed	589 MHz vs 580 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	56 vs 55
PassMark - G3D Mark	120 vs 101

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1117 vs 1017
Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1117 vs 1017

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117 vs 1017
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117 vs 1017

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

120

101

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1017

1117

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1017

1117

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
PassMark - G2D Mark	56	55
PassMark - G3D Mark	120	101
Geekbench - OpenCL	2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1017	1117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1017	1117
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		0.537

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	C79MX
Launch date	3 September 2010	15 October 2008
Place in performance rating	1627	1636
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)	25 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 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	12.64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz
Memory type	DDR3