CMP 30HX vs GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated257
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data21.42
Power efficiencyno data11.66
Architectureno dataTuring (2018−2022)
GPU code nameMCP79MXTU116
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date14 October 2008 (16 years ago)25 February 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores161408
Core clock speed450 MHz1530 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors282 Million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt125 Watt
Texture fill rateno data157.1
Floating-point processing powerno data5.027 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data88

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x4
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 October 2008 25 February 2021
Chip lithography 65 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 125 Watt

9400M (G) / ION (LE) has 941.7% lower power consumption.

CMP 30HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) and CMP 30HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) is a notebook card while CMP 30HX is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)
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