GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition vs 9400M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1352not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.49no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameC79G96C
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 October 2008 (16 years ago)20 January 2009 (15 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 cores1632
Core clock speed580 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors314 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate4.6408.800
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPS0.0896 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 October 2008 20 January 2009
Chip lithography 65 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 50 Watt

GeForce 9400M has 316.7% lower power consumption.

GT 120 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400M and GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9400M is a notebook card while GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
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