Thread: PNY GeForce 9400 GT graphic card

An entry-level graphics chip from Nvidia is the basis of these active cooling, although fairly quiet graphics card. The graphics chip runs at a clock of 550 MHz. It is home to 16 stream processors, in turn, with 1400 MHz run. The graphics card comes with a price of 45 euro is very favorable. Yet it offers everything you need immediately in 3D and HD video to enter the world to be able to.



The very graphically rich 3D ran smoothly in all tested resolutions. 1600 x 1200 pixels came with 26 fps on the screen - this is very playable. All the other 3D titles performed well, sometimes even up to the 2560er resolution. For medium or high image quality, the graphics card brings but with too little power. Here you need more of a middle-class high-end model, respectively. The HD video playback, however, worked very well and strain on the CPU our test machine with only moderate 14 percent.

The memory graphics card with 512 MB generously interpreted. He is using a 128 bit wide interface to the graphics chip attached - this is normal for the beginner area. The memory is DDR2 but only by slow, but for the entry-level graphics chip GeForce 9400 GT quite fast enough. The memory clock is 400 MHz, corresponding to an effective clock of 800 MHz. As for the interface can look forward to two (dual-link) DVI connectors, in which digital and analog displays can be connected. Even a TV or video device to find connection, namely the integrated S-Video output. The package includes a DVI-VGA adapter and a S-Video-Composite/YPbPr-Video adapter are included.