GeForce 9400M: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce 9400M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.23% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9400M sales 15 October 2008. This is a Tesla architecture notebook card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 12 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 9400M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1413
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.54of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameC79
Market segmentLaptop
Release date15 October 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 9400M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9400M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed580 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors314 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)12 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate4.640of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs4of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs8of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9400M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9400M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Shared memory+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9400M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce 9400M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9400M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GeForce 9400M
0.23

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 9400M Samples: 116 101

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 9400M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 9400M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


ION 104.35
GeForce 9400M 100
ION LE 95.65

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9400M is Radeon HD 7290, which is faster by 9% and higher by 18 positions in our ranking.

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