NVIDIA GeForce 9400M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 9200M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 550 MHz
Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 13 Watt
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 55 vs 46
Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1117 vs 882
Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1117 vs 882

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 October 2008 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 550 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 13 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	55 vs 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117 vs 882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117 vs 882

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 129 vs 101

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	129 vs 101

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

101

129

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

882

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1117

882

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	101	129
PassMark - G2D Mark	55	46
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1117	882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1117	882

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	C79MX	G98
Launch date	15 October 2008	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1642	1643
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	13 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	210 million
CUDA cores		8
Floating-point performance		22.4 gflops
Gigaflops		31
Pipelines		8
Texture fill rate		4.4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz
Memory type		GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA