Tesla M6 vs GeForce 9400M

Place in the ranking	1351	330
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.51	11.37
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	C79	GM204
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	15 October 2008 (16 years ago)	30 August 2015 (9 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 cores	16	1536
Core clock speed	580 MHz	930 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1180 MHz
Number of transistors	314 million	5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.640	113.3
Floating-point processing power	0.0448 TFLOPS	3.625 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	64
TMUs	8	96

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	no data	MXM Module
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	8 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	160.4 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

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

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.4
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	-	5.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 9400M 0.26

Tesla M6 16.29
+6165%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce 9400M 101

Tesla M6 6284
+6122%

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	0.26	16.29
Recency	15 October 2008	30 August 2015
Chip lithography	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	100 Watt

GeForce 9400M has 733.3% lower power consumption.

Tesla M6, on the other hand, has a 6165.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

The Tesla M6 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 9400M in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 9400M is a notebook card while Tesla M6 is a workstation one.

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