NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1648 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+13417%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1 GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1664
Shading Units
16
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G86S
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
