NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (21.34GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
+591%
0.311 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
667 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
21.34GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
2
96
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.80 GFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
65W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G96C
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
