ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT vs GeForce 9400 GT PCI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1164
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.02
Power efficiencyno data1.11
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG96CRV630
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 August 2008 (16 years ago)28 June 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16120
Core clock speed550 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors314 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate4.4006.400
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPS0.192 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIPCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s22.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2008 28 June 2007
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 45 Watt

9400 GT PCI has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

ATI HD 2600 XT, on the other hand, has 11.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400 GT PCI and Radeon HD 2600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
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