ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 vs GeForce 9400

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1354not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.44no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameC79M71
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)1 March 2007 (17 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 cores166
Core clock speed450 MHz480 MHz
Boost clock speedno data480 MHz
Number of transistors314 million107 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.6001.920
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
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
WidthIGPno data

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 SharedDDR2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared128 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 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-VideoNo outputs

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
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 1 March 2007
Chip lithography 65 nm 80 nm

GeForce 9400 has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 23.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400 and Mobility Radeon HD 2300. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9400 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 2300 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400
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