GeForce 9400 GT vs Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1066not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.44no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeG96C
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)27 August 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$79.99

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 cores19216
Core clock speedno data550 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data314 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperatureno data105 °C
Texture fill rateno data4.400
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Heightno data4.376" (11.1 cm)
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options-+

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 typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 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 Connectorsno dataDual Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMI-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIno dataS/PDIF

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 27 August 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt

R4 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 7 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) and GeForce 9400 GT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while GeForce 9400 GT is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)
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