GeForce RTX 4070 vs 9400 GT Rev. 3

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated20
Place by popularitynot in top-10032
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data60.23
Power efficiencyno data23.96
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGT218AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 June 2012 (12 years ago)12 April 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

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 cores165888
Core clock speed589 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors260 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate4.712455.4
Floating-point processing power0.04486 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mm240 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

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 typeDDR2GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount128 MB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s504.2 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.28.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 June 2012 12 April 2023
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 200 Watt

9400 GT Rev. 3 has 300% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 and GeForce RTX 4070. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3
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