GeForce 9400: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 9400 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.25% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9400 sales 17 April 2007. This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 40 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 9400: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1357 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 0.43 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | C79 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 17 April 2007 (17 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 9400's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9400's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 16 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 450 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 40 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.600 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0352 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9400 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCI | |
| Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9400: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9400. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 9400, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9400. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9400 is Radeon X1600 PRO, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
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Recommended processors
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