GeForce GT 520 PCI vs 9400 GT Rev. 3

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGT218GF119
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 June 2012 (12 years ago)13 April 2011 (13 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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1648
Core clock speed589 MHz810 MHz
Number of transistors260 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt29 Watt
Texture fill rate4.7126.480
Floating-point processing power0.04486 TFLOPS0.1555 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Length168 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2DDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s14.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.22.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 June 2012 13 April 2011
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 29 Watt

9400 GT Rev. 3 has an age advantage of 1 year.

GT 520 PCI, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 72.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 and GeForce GT 520 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3
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