NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 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. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 550 MHz
3.3x more texture fill rate: 14.43 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
15.5x better floating-point performance: 692.7 gflops vs 44.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 50 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	18 June 2014 vs 27 August 2008
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	14.43 GTexel / s vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 16
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops vs 44.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	830
PassMark - G2D Mark	253
Geekbench - OpenCL	2902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	166.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	12.415
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	36.916
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3324
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	327

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 730	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G96C
Launch date	18 June 2014	27 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$59.99
Place in performance rating	1311	not rated
Price now	$54.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	20.48
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	692.7 gflops	44.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	384	16
Texture fill rate	14.43 GTexel / s	4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	145 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	40.1 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2