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NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G is a graphics card released on October 15, 2008. It has 16 shading units, 256 MB of video memory on a 128-bit bus, a boost clock of 450 MHz and a 12 W board power rating. It scores 174 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

MCP79MX

6/10 key specs recorded · 24 facts

Depth: 30 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified August 11, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 6 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

16cores

Memory

256 MB

128-bit

Boost clock

n/a

450 MHz base

Board power

12 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G scores 174 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 23.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,230), measured across 121 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 33.

PassMark G3D Mark

174

Rank #2,230
Faster than 23.4% of 2,658 GPUs
121 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 3 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 4.1% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 4 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 32.1% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G averages DirectX 9 3 fps and DirectX 10 4 fps, across 121 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface Integrated(PCIe 2.0 x16)

Max memory 256 MB

Core clock 450 MHz

Memory clock 800,1066 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Max TDP 12 W

First benchmarked 2009-07-30

Samples 121

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G states the Integrated(PCIe 2.0 x16) interface, up to 256 MB of memory, a core clock of 450 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-07-30. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded

Codename MCP79MX

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G uses the MCP79MX graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 16

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 8

Render output units (ROPs) 4

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G has 16 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G.

Clock speeds

Base clock 450 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G runs at a base clock of 450 MHz.

Memory

Size 256 MB

Type Not recorded

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G is equipped with 256 MB of memory and uses a 128-bit memory bus.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G has a board power rating of 12 W and it connects over Integrated(PCIe 2.0 x16).

Board power (TDP) 12 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface Integrated(PCIe 2.0 x16)

Market

Launched October 15, 2008

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G was released on October 15, 2008.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 174

PassMark G2D 33

Rank #2,230

Samples 121

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G.