GeForce4 MX 440 vs GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	1579
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	G96C	NV17 A3
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	19 May 2010 (15 years ago)	6 February 2002 (23 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	32	no data
Core clock speed	550 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	29 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	8.800	1.100
Floating-point processing power	0.0896 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	2
TMUs	16	4
L2 Cache	32 KB	no data

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 4x
Length	145 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	6.4 GB/s

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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	8.0
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	19 May 2010	6 February 2002
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Chip lithography	55 nm	150 nm

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