GeForce 9400 GT vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce 9400 GT
Memory: 128Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Aug 2008
GeForce 9400 GT
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9400 GT

120 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 560 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 560 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameG86 ()vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process80 nmvs40 nm
Die Size127 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors210 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders16vs384
Compute Units2vs8
Core clock459 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size128 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9400 GTGeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP50 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date1 Aug 2008vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    1.84 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    3.67 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    9.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9400 GT
    29.38 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better