NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 4.4 GTexel / s vs 4.16 GTexel / s
Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 25 Watt
2.1x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 666 MHz

Launch date	4 June 2008 vs 4 December 2007
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s vs 4.16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 25 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 666 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 567 MHz vs 550 MHz
2x more pipelines: 16 vs 8
Around 76% better floating-point performance: 39.36 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1023 vs 747
Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1023 vs 747

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	567 MHz vs 550 MHz
Pipelines	16 vs 8
Floating-point performance	39.36 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1023 vs 747
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1023 vs 747

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

747

1023

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

747

1023

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	118
PassMark - G2D Mark	24
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	747	1023
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	747	1023

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G98	G98
Launch date	4 June 2008	4 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1683	1650
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	567 MHz
CUDA cores	8
Floating-point performance	22.4 gflops	39.36 gflops
Gigaflops	34
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	8	16
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s	4.16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-I	PCI
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA