GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce 9400 GT

GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9400 GT
Memory: 128Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Aug 2008
GeForce 9400 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce 9800 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce 9400 GT
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsG86 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs80 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs127 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs210 million
Shaders112vs16
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs459 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce 9400 GT
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs128 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTGeForce 9400 GT
TDP125 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date21 Jul 2008vs1 Aug 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    1.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    3.67 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    9.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9400 GT
    29.38 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better