NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 40 Watt
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 63 vs 61
Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 176 vs 126

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2009 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	63 vs 61
PassMark - G3D Mark	176 vs 126

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 540 MHz
Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 800 vs 593
Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 800 vs 593

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 540 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	800 vs 593
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	800 vs 593

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

176

126

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

593

800

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

593

800

Name	NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
PassMark - G2D Mark	63	61
PassMark - G3D Mark	176	126
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	593	800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	593	800

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G98	MCP7A
Launch date	10 March 2009	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1628	1631
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2