NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
- Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
- Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 20 Watt
- Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 61 vs 59
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 15 October 2008 vs 1 February 2008 |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm vs 80 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 12 Watt vs 20 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 61 vs 59 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
- 2.1x more core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 450 MHz
- Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 134 vs 68
- Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1053 vs 1044
- Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1053 vs 1044
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Core clock speed | 950 MHz vs 450 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 134 vs 68 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 1053 vs 1044 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 1053 vs 1044 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 68 | 134 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 61 | 59 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 1044 | 1053 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 1044 | 1053 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Tesla | Tesla |
| Code name | C79MX | G84 |
| Launch date | 15 October 2008 | 1 February 2008 |
| Place in performance rating | 1607 | 1608 |
| Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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| Core clock speed | 450 MHz | 950 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 80 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 12 Watt | 20 Watt |
| Transistor count | 314 million | 289 million |
| CUDA cores | 32 | |
| Floating-point performance | 60.8 gflops | |
| Pipelines | 32 | |
| Texture fill rate | 7.6 GTexel / s | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | |
| Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB / s | |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | |
| Memory type | GDDR2 / GDDR3 | |
| Shared memory | 0 | |


