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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
68
134
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
61
59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1044
1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1044
1053
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
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

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla
Code name C79MX G84
Launch date 15 October 2008 1 February 2008
Place in performance rating 1601 1603
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

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

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

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