GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce 9400 GT PCI

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Jan 2022
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2008
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce 9400 GT PCI

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 9400 GT PCI
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-140-A1)vsG96C ()
Fab Process8 nmvs55 nm
Die Size276 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs314 million
Shaders2304vs16
Compute Units18vs1
Core clock1545 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs40vs4
TMUs72vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 9400 GT PCI
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs256 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GBGeForce 9400 GT PCI
TDP90 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date27 Jan 2022vs27 Aug 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    69.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT PCI
    2.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    125.30 GT/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT PCI
    4.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9400 GT PCI
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
    8018.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9400 GT PCI
    44.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better