NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock 1733MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +30496%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

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GeForce 9400 GT

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

-

1733MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251MHz

Memory Clock

600MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

16

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2MB

L2 Cache

16KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

G86

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

210 million

314mm²

Die Size

127mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

50W

450W

Suggested PSU

250W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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