GeForce 9400M vs Radeon 540

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking712not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency4.97no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameLexaC79
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)15 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores38416
Core clock speed1183 MHz580 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,200 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate28.394.640
Floating-point processing power0.9085 TFLOPS0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs248

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 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width32 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth24 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.74.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.1N/A
Vulkan1.3N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Radeon 540 1383
+1269%
GeForce 9400M 101

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 15 October 2008
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 12 Watt

Radeon 540 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 9400M, on the other hand, has 316.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 540 and GeForce 9400M. We've got no test results to judge.


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