NVIDIA NVS 4200M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 4200M 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. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 4200M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 580 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 287 vs 101
  • Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 78 vs 55
  • 4.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 2.559 vs 0.537
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1726 vs 1117
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1726 vs 1117
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 February 2011 vs 15 October 2008
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 580 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 287 vs 101
PassMark - G2D Mark 78 vs 55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.559 vs 0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1726 vs 1117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1726 vs 1117

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 25 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 25 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 4200M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
287
101
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
78
55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2.559
0.537
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1726
1117
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1726
1117
Name NVIDIA NVS 4200M NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
PassMark - G3D Mark 287 101
PassMark - G2D Mark 78 55
Geekbench - OpenCL 1155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.559 0.537
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 103.797
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.826
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 12.836
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1726 1117
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1726 1117

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA NVS 4200M NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla
Code name GF119 C79MX
Launch date 22 February 2011 15 October 2008
Place in performance rating 1640 1643
Type Mobile workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 580 MHz
Floating-point performance 155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 6.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 314 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0