NVIDIA GeForce 9400M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| C79 | GPU Name | G86 |
| C79MX | Model number | G86-770-A2 |
| Tesla | Architecture | Tesla |
| 65 nm | Process Size | 80 nm |
| 314 million | Transistors | 210 million |
| 144 mm² | Die Size | 127 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Oct 15th, 2008 | Release Date | May 1st, 2007 |
| GeForce 9M IGP (9000M) | Family | GeForce 8M (8000M) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| GeForce 8M IGP | Predecessor | GeForce Go 7 |
| PCIe 2.0 x16 | Bus Interface | MXM-II |
Memory
| System Shared | Memory Size | 512 MB |
| System Shared | Memory Type | DDR2 |
| System Shared | Memory Bus | 128 bit |
| System Dependent | Bandwidth | 12.80 GB/s |
Performance
| 2.320 GPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 1.800 GPixel/s |
| 4.640 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 3.600 GTexel/s |
| 44.80 GFLOPS | FP32 (float) performance | 28.80 GFLOPS |
Clock Speeds
| System Shared | Memory Clock | 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective |
| 580 MHz | GPU Clock | 450 MHz |
Render Config
| 16 | Shading Units | 16 |
| 8 | TMUs | 8 |
| 4 | ROPs | 4 |
| 2 | SM Count | 1 |
Board Design
| IGP | Slot Width | MXM Module |
| 12 W | Thermal design power (TDP) | 20 W |
| No outputs | Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
| 11.1 (10_0) | DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) |
| 3.3 | OpenGL | 3.3 |
| N/A | OpenCL | 1.1 |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| 4.0 | Shader Model | 4.0 |