NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9400 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +13417%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

3.672 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

29.38 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

2

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

3

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs NVIDIA CMP 40HX

4

AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

5

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

6

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 380

7

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI

8

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

9

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

10

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

Related News

1

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

2

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

3

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

4

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

5

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

6

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

7

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

8

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

9

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

10

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales