ATI Radeon 9800 XT vs GeForce 9400M

Place in the ranking	1353	1424
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.49	0.17
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code name	C79	R360
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	15 October 2008 (16 years ago)	1 October 2003 (21 year 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	no data
Core clock speed	580 MHz	412 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	117 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	60 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.640	3.296
Floating-point processing power	0.0448 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	8
TMUs	8	8

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	AGP 8x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x Molex

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	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	256 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	365 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	23.36 GB/s
Shared memory	+	no data

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 Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	9.0
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

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. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 9400M 0.26
+73.3%

ATI 9800 XT 0.15

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
+80.4%

ATI 9800 XT 56

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	0.26	0.15
Recency	15 October 2008	1 October 2003
Chip lithography	65 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	60 Watt

GeForce 9400M has a 73.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 130.8% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

The GeForce 9400M is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon 9800 XT in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 9400M is a notebook card while Radeon 9800 XT is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.