NVS 810 vs GeForce 9400M

Place in the ranking	1434	851
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.54	3.10
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code name	C79	GM107
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	15 October 2008 (17 years ago)	4 November 2015 (10 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 cores	16	512 ×2
Core clock speed	580 MHz	902 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1033 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	68 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.640	33.06 ×2
Floating-point processing power	0.0448 TFLOPS	1.058 TFLOPS ×2
ROPs	4	16 ×2
TMUs	8	32 ×2
L1 Cache	no data	256 KB
L2 Cache	no data	1024 KB

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	198 mm
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	System Shared	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB ×2
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 Bit ×2
Memory clock speed	System Shared	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	14.4 GB/s ×2
Shared memory	+	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

8x mini-DisplayPort

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.0	5.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	-	5.0

Synthetic benchmarks

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GeForce 9400M 0.24

NVS 810 2.74
+1042%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

GeForce 9400M 101
Samples: 116

NVS 810 1146
+1035%

Samples: 32

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.24	2.74
Recency	15 October 2008	4 November 2015
Chip lithography	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	68 Watt

GeForce 9400M has 466.7% lower power consumption.

NVS 810, on the other hand, has a 1041.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

The NVS 810 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 9400M in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 9400M is a notebook graphics card while NVS 810 is a workstation one.