GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost vs GTS 160M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1007not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.10no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)no data
GPU code nameG94no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2009 (17 years ago)3 June 2008 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6424
Core clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors505 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Wattno data
Texture fill rate19.20no data
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops288no data
ROPs16no data
TMUs32no data
L2 Cache64 KBno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
SLI options2-way-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth51 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsVGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVIno data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GTS 160M 3965
+3072%
9400M GeForceBoost 125

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2009 3 June 2008

GTS 160M has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 160M and GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost. We've got no test results to judge.

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