GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) vs Radeon R7 260X

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking502not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.39no data
Power efficiency4.98no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)no data
GPU code nameBonaireMCP79MX
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)14 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$139 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores89616
Core clock speedno data450 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,080 million282 Million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate61.60no data
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs56no 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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinno 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 amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory bandwidth104 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortno data
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1210.0
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 14 October 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 12 Watt

R7 260X has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

9400M (G) / ION (LE), on the other hand, has 858.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 260X and GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 260X is a desktop card while GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 260X
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