NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1 GB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
+617%
0.208 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1 GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
2
64
Shading Units
16
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
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-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G86S
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
