NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 81% higher core clock speed: 993 MHz vs 550 MHz
7.2x more texture fill rate: 31.78 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
17x better floating-point performance: 762.6 gflops vs 44.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
6.3x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	9 April 2015 vs 27 August 2008
Core clock speed	993 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	31.78 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 16
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops vs 44.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 64 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 64 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK107	G96C
Launch date	9 April 2015	27 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$89
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	993 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops	44.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	16
Texture fill rate	31.78 GTexel / s	4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	64 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	145 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2