GeForce 9400 GT vs GeForce GTS 450

GeForce 9400 GT
Memory: 128Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Aug 2008
GeForce 9400 GT
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9400 GT

56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTS 450

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GTS 450
GPU NameG86 ()vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process80 nmvs40 nm
Die Size127 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors210 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders16vs192
Compute Units2vs4
Core clock459 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size128 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GTS 450
TDP50 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date1 Aug 2008vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    1.84 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    3.67 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    9.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    29.38 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better