Graphics card comparison
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs GeForce 9400 GT
Nvidia
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
8192 Mb GDDR6
Released 4 Jan 2022
DESKTOP
VS
Nvidia
GeForce 9400 GT
128 Mb DDR2
Released 1 Aug 2008
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
- Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce 9400 GT
- 80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB .
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
- PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB | GeForce 9400 GT |
|---|
| GPU Name | GA106 (GA106-150-A1) | G86 () |
| Fab Process | 8 nm | 80 nm |
| Die Size | 276 mm² | 127 mm² |
| Transistors | 13,250 million | 210 million |
| Shaders | 2560 | 16 |
| Compute Units | 20 | 2 |
| Core clock | 1552 MHz | 459 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | 4 |
| TMUs | 80 | 8 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB | GeForce 9400 GT |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective | 600 MHz
1200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | 128 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB | GeForce 9400 GT |
|---|
| TDP | 130 watts | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Jan 2022 | 1 Aug 2008 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB85.30 GP/s
- GeForce 9400 GT1.84 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB142.20 GT/s
- GeForce 9400 GT3.67 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB224.00 GB/s
- GeForce 9400 GT9.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB9098.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce 9400 GT29.38 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better