GeForce 7300 GT Mac Edition vs 9400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1357not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.43no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameC79G73
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)26 August 2006 (18 years ago)

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 cores16no data
Core clock speed450 MHz350 MHz
Number of transistors314 million177 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt24 Watt
Texture fill rate3.6001.400
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs84

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
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared128 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 26 August 2006
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 24 Watt

GeForce 9400 has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

7300 GT Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400 and GeForce 7300 GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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