NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 40 Watt
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 150 vs 126
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1679 vs 800
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1679 vs 800

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 June 2008 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	150 vs 126
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1679 vs 800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1679 vs 800

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400

4.8x more core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 120 MHz
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 61 vs 27

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 120 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	61 vs 27

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

150

126

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1679

800

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1679

800

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
PassMark - G3D Mark	150	126
PassMark - G2D Mark	27	61
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1679	800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1679	800

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	MCP7A
Launch date	4 June 2008	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1530	1631
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	120 MHz	580 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0