Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce 9400

Place in the ranking	1354	200
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.44	54.33
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	C79	AD107
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores	16	2048
Core clock speed	450 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	3.600	129.6
Floating-point processing power	0.0352 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	32
TMUs	8	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCI	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	IGP	no 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 type	System Shared	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	4 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no 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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	4.0	6.8
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.25	27.27
Recency	17 April 2007	26 February 2024
Chip lithography	65 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 10808% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 16 years, a 1200% more advanced lithography process, and 14.3% lower power consumption.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 9400 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 9400 is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.