NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)

The Nvidia GeForce 9400M G is an integrated (onboard) graphics card for laptops without dedicated graphics memory. The card was introduced in October 2008 in conjunction with the new Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air products (called only 9400M). At the time of announcement it was the fastest mGPU (motherboard GPU) on the market.
The 9400M G graphics core is used in the MCP79 laptop chipset and in the ION platform for netbooks (which is essentially the same). The ION LE uses the same graphics core, but the DirectX support is limited to 9 (instead of 10). The clock rates of all thre platforms is identical.
The performance of the 9400M G is comparable to current entry level GPUs with dedicated graphics memory (like the GeForce 9300M GS).Therefore, the graphics adapater is able to display older games (like Doom3) in high details fluently and new (not too demanding games) in low details fluently. Warhammer Online should for example run on the 2.4 GHz MacBook fluently. Compared to the predecessor in the MacBook, the Intel GMA X3100, the GeForce 9400M should perform 5x better.
Because of the shared memory (the memory is reserved from the main memory), the graphics adapter performs significantly better with DDR3 main memory than with DDR2 (up to 33% more performance).
The current consumption of the mGPU is with a maximum of 12 Watt TDP (for the whole chipset (north- and southbridge are integrated) on par with the current Intel GMA X4500MHD (Centrino 2).
The chipset supports Hybrid-SLI (HybridPower) in conjunction with some GeForce 9x00M cards like the 9600M GT. HybridPower is a technique to choose between the integrated and dedicated graphics core, if performance or battery runtime is needed. Up to now the user has to use a tool to switch between the GPUs. (in Windows Vista, XP is not supported and MacOs needs a reboot according to Nvidia - at time of announcement). GeForceBoost to boost the performance (using SLI) is not supported in the MacBook Pro.
As the 9500M G, the 9400M features 16 stream processors that do the work of the former dedicated pixel- and vertex-shaders. The unified shaders of Nvidia are 1-dimensional (AMD has 5-dimensional shaders which leads to the higher number of shaders).
The MCP79MX (codename of the GeForce 9400M) can help the CPU in decoding HD videos. It features the PureVideo HD engine (VP3 video processor). Furthermore, the chip can be programmed using CUDA and can accellerate some operations in Photoshop CS4.
At the same time the desktop 9300 and 9400 mGPU was presented, which should perform simillarly (the laptop chipset 9400M should perform a bit lower than the 9300).
Manufacturer | NVIDIA |
GeForce 9400M Series | |
Codename | MCP79MX |
Pipelines | 16 - unified |
Core Speed | 450 MHz |
Shader Speed | 1100 MHz |
Shared Memory | yes |
DirectX | DirectX 10.0, Shader 4.0 |
Transistor Count | 282 Million |
technology | 65 nm |
Features | PureVideo HD VP3 |
Date of Announcement | 14.10.2008 |
Link to Manufacturer Page | http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_gef... |
Benchmarks
607 Points (1%)
Alienware M17x  | QX9300 | 4096 MB | | | 607 |
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 13%
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (Desktop) 15800%
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
465 Points (0%)
Alienware M17x  | QX9300 | 4096 MB | | | 465 |
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 12%
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3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
min: 5439 avg: 8199 median: 6427 (7%) max: 13845 Points
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3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 3385 avg: 4132 median: 3616 (2%) max: 5759 Points
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3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
min: 2143 avg: 3002 median: 2807 (4%) max: 3930 Points
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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +min: 1118 avg: 1348 median: 1157 (2%) max: 2000 Points
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (Desktop) 3399%
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x800 +min: 1916 avg: 2092 median: 2113.5 (4%) max: 2207 Points
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3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x720 +1999 Points (4%)
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x720 |
Asus X61G | T6400 | 3072 MB | 450 / MHz | 256MB | 1999 |
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3DMark 06 - Standard 1366x768 +1240 points (2%)
3DMark 06 - Standard 1366x768 |
Samsung N510 | N280 | 1024 MB | 450 / MHz | 512MB | 1240 |
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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics
min: 5.1 avg: 5.3 median: 5.3 (67%) max: 5.4 Points
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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics
min: 3.9 avg: 4.3 median: 4.3 (54%) max: 4.8 Points
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Windows Vista Experience Index - Windows Vista Leistungsindex - Grafik (Spiele)
min: 5.1 avg: 5.2 median: 5.3 (78%) max: 5.3 Points
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Windows Vista Experience Index - Windows Vista Leistungsindex - Grafik
min: 4.8 avg: 5.3 median: 5.5 (81%) max: 5.7 Points
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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 939 avg: 2231 median: 2326.5 (11%) max: 4402 points
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 37%
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 750%
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 34%
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 63%
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» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Additional Benchmarks
High 800x600
8.9 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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Low 0xAF 0xAA 800x600
28.8 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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Med 0xAF 0xAA 800x600
15.1 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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Medium 1366x768
8.7 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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Low 1366x768
17.7 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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High 1366x768
4.9 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
Additional Benchmarks
Med 0xAF 0xAA 800x600
14.2 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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Low 0xAF 0xAA 800x600
29.3 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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High 0xAF 0xAA 800x600
7.9 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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Low 1366x768
17.6 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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Medium 1366x768
8.7 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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High 1366x768
4.7 [X] Asus X61GIntel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 100%
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 2540%
» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
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» The benchmarks indicate that the game is not playable in the tested settings.
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AMD Radeon HD 6790 533%
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 21%
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 -18%
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ATI Radeon HD 4350 68%
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» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
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