NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +10675%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

4.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

44.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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