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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1008 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 +5262%
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2
0.045 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2015
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1024
Shading Units
16
64
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.80 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

120W
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
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GM206
GPU Name
G96C
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
228 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
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