GeForce 9400 GT PCI: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9400 GT PCI sales 27 August 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCI interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 9400 GT PCI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G96C | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 27 August 2008 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 9400 GT PCI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9400 GT PCI'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 | 550 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.400 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0448 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (GRID A100A) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9400 GT PCI 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 | |
| Length | 168 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9400 GT PCI: 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 | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 400 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9400 GT PCI. 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 GT PCI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9400 GT PCI is Radeon HD 4250.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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