Originally posted by: Parasitic
The 9400M is more or less the same as a 9300M GS, which is roughly comparable with a 8400M GS. Since the 8400M GS is a bit slower than the 8600M GT, which is probably marginally faster than your 7600GT, I would say that the 9400M ~ 8400M GS ~ 7600GT.
Edit: ok, maybe I was a little off...the 9400M should be 30-40% slower the a 7600GT in synthetic comparisons according to this chart:
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But keep in mind that you'll be running this on a laptop which probably has a lower resolution than your desktop LCD, so you might not see much difference. Plus the new card supports DX10 while your 7600GT doesn't.
Originally posted by: Hacp
9400M is roughly around the 6800gt in performance.
Originally posted by: R3MF
the 6800GT gets around 2600 at 3dmark 2006, that is comparable to the 9400M which gets 2,100.
the 9400M also has a similar number of GPU transistors and bandwidth, as well as a core clock that 50% higher than the 6800GT.
the performance should be similar.
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: R3MF
the 6800GT gets around 2600 at 3dmark 2006, that is comparable to the 9400M which gets 2,100.
the 9400M also has a similar number of GPU transistors and bandwidth, as well as a core clock that 50% higher than the 6800GT.
the performance should be similar.
As someone who had a 6800GT, I can tell you that this is not the case. Driver optimizations and increases in CPU power can account for their similar 3DMark scores, but the 6800GT will crush the 9400M IGP under its boot heel. My 6800GT could play a plethora of games at high details that my Studio 14z will never be able to play, despite having a much more powerful C2D CPU than the P4C I had back then.
Originally posted by: hans007
9300/9400 M if you have ddr3 is different than ddr2. that said, its 16 pipes, and with ddr3 and a full dual channel bus, it would probably be faster than a 8400GS which is 64-bit bus with the same 16 shaders. I am not sure if they renamed the 8400GS the 9300GS (i think its a die shrink) but it should be similar.
A ddr3 9400 based laptop would actaully notbe horribly slow i'd think. a macbook pro 13" i guess would be one example.
Originally posted by: mjrpes3
This page is all you'll ever need:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/W...ics-cards.18488.0.html
EDIT: Be nice if there was an equivalent table for desktops!