NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +960%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

0.045 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

448bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

2

192

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

28

ROPs

4

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GT218

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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