NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 16% higher core clock speed: 672 MHz vs 580 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• 4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 478 vs 101
• Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 91 vs 55
• 9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 4.85 vs 0.537
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2701 vs 1117
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2701 vs 1117

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

• 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 35 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	478 101
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	91 55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.85 0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2701 1117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2701 1117

Compare specifications (specs)