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).

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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	1603	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