RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB vs GeForce 9400M G

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1406not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.99no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameC79GA104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date15 October 2008 (16 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores164096
Core clock speed450 MHz495 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1170 MHz
Number of transistors314 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate3.600149.8
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPS9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8128
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 October 2008 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 65 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 70 Watt

9400M G has 483.3% lower power consumption.

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 712.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400M G and RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9400M G is a notebook graphics card while RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
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