NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 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 9500M GS

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • Around 64% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 580 MHz
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 40 Watt
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 134 vs 99
  • Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1053 vs 800
  • Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1053 vs 800
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2008 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 580 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 134 vs 99
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1053 vs 800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1053 vs 800

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400

  • Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 72 vs 59
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 72 vs 59

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
134
99
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
59
72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1053
800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1053
800
Name NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS NVIDIA GeForce 9400
PassMark - G3D Mark 134 99
PassMark - G2D Mark 59 72
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1053 800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1053 800

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla
Code name G84 MCP7A
Launch date 1 February 2008 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1604 1605
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 950 MHz 580 MHz
CUDA cores 32
Floating-point performance 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 32
Texture fill rate 7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 289 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCI
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