Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce 9400 GT PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2800 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+12415%
5632
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
45
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Aug 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
2816
Shading Units
16
176
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.400 GTexel/s
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.80 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
290W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
G96C
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0