GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) vs GTS 250M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking991not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.55no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)no data
GPU code nameGT215MCP79MX
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)14 October 2008 (16 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 cores9616
Core clock speed500 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors727 million282 Million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate16.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops360no data
ROPs8no data
TMUs32no data

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 sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsHDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVIno data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)10.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GTS 250M 3659
+503%
9400M (G) / ION (LE) 607

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 14 October 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 12 Watt

GTS 250M has an age advantage of 8 months, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

9400M (G) / ION (LE), on the other hand, has 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 250M and GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE). We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
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