GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1648 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+8611%
3920
GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2
45
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
2
1664
Shading Units
16
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.400 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.80 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G96C
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
