NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 GTX 590 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +2664%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

0.045 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.80 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G96C

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

520 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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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