NVIDIA GeForce 9400M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and NVIDIA GeForce 7100 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 66% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 110 nm
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 68 vs 51
6.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1117 vs 184
6.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1117 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 October 2008 vs 8 August 2006
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	68 vs 51
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117 vs 184
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 79 vs 64

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	79 vs 64

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

184

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

184

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	68	51
PassMark - G2D Mark	64	79
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117	184
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117	184

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	C79MX	NV44 B2
Launch date	15 October 2008	8 August 2006
Place in performance rating	1630	1632
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	75 million
Texture fill rate		1.4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		5.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR2