NVIDIA GeForce 9400M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 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. 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 8400 GS PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 567 MHz
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1117 vs 1023
Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1117 vs 1023

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 October 2008 vs 4 December 2007
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 567 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117 vs 1023
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117 vs 1023

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

1023

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

1023

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	101
PassMark - G2D Mark	55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117	1023
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117	1023

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	C79MX	G98
Launch date	15 October 2008	4 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1647	1650
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	567 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		39.36 gflops
Pipelines		16
Texture fill rate		4.16 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	PCI
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		8 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		666 MHz
Memory type		DDR3