NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 vs AMD FirePro A300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 and AMD FirePro A300 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

AMD FirePro A300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro A300

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 589 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm

Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 589 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3	AMD FirePro A300
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 3
Code name	GT218	Trinity GL
Launch date	13 June 2012	6 June 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	760 MHz
Floating-point performance	44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.712 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	1,303 million
Boost clock speed		905 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	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	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz
Memory type	DDR2