AMD Radeon HD 6290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameC79Zacate
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date15 October 2008 (15 years old)1 July 2011 (12 years old)
Current price$1279 no data

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 cores1680
Core clock speed450 MHz280 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors314 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt19 Watt
Texture fill rate3.6005.200
Floating-point performanceno data104 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 9400M G and Radeon HD 6290 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memoryno data+

Video outputs and ports

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMIno data+

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

9400M G 67
HD 6290 105
+56.7%

Radeon HD 6290 outperforms GeForce 9400M G by 57% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 15 October 2008 1 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount System Shared 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 19 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400M G and Radeon HD 6290. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9400M G is a desktop card while Radeon HD 6290 is a notebook one.


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