GeForce 9400 GT vs GeForce GT 720

GeForce 9400 GT
Memory: 128Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Aug 2008
GeForce 9400 GT
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9400 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 720

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 720

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GT 720
GPU NameG86 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process80 nmvs28 nm
Die Size127 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors210 millionvsunknown
Shaders16vs192
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock459 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GT 720
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size128 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GT 720
TDP50 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date1 Aug 2008vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    1.84 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    3.67 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    9.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    29.38 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better