GMA 950 vs GeForce 9400M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1350not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.49no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 3.5 (2005)
GPU code nameC79Lakeport
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 October 2008 (16 years ago)1 May 2005 (19 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 cores16no data
Core clock speed580 MHz166 MHz
Number of transistors314 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt7 Watt
Texture fill rate4.6400.66
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs84

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 1.0 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 SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 October 2008 1 May 2005
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 7 Watt

GeForce 9400M has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

GMA 950, on the other hand, has 71.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400M and GMA 950. We've got no test results to judge.


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