NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) vs Intel HD Graphics (Braswell)

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1152not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 (2015−2016)no data
GPU code nameBraswellMCP79MX
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2015 (8 years old)14 October 2008 (15 years old)
Current price$216 $1030
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1616
Core clock speed320 MHz450 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data282 Million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12 Watt

Memory

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 bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory++

API support

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

DirectX11.210.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance 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3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution.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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD Graphics (Braswell) 1479
+144%
9400M (G) / ION (LE) 607

HD Graphics (Braswell) outperforms GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) by 144% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 April 2015 14 October 2008
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm

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


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