GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost vs Radeon HD 6970M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking661not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.57no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameBlackcombno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (15 years ago)3 June 2008 (17 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 cores96024
Core clock speed680 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.64no data
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs48no data
L1 Cache192 KBno data
L2 Cache512 KBno 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Synthetic benchmarks

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



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 6970M 11898
+9418%
9400M GeForceBoost 125

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm

HD 6970M has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 63% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost. We've got no test results to judge.

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