GeForce 9500 GT vs GeForce 9400 GT
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce 9500 GT
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9500 GT | | GeForce 9400 GT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G96C () | vs | G86 () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 80 nm |
| Die Size | 121 mm² | vs | 127 mm² |
| Transistors | 314 million | vs | 210 million |
| Shaders | 32 | vs | 16 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | vs | 459 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9500 GT | | GeForce 9400 GT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 600 MHz
1200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 128 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9500 GT | | GeForce 9400 GT | |
|---|
| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Jul 2008 | vs | 1 Aug 2008 |
GeForce 9500 GT
4.40 GP/s
GeForce 9400 GT
1.84 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 9500 GT
8.80 GT/s
GeForce 9400 GT
3.67 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 9500 GT
25.60 GB/s
GeForce 9400 GT
9.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 9500 GT
89.60 GFLOPs
GeForce 9400 GT
29.38 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better