New GPU vs old GPU?

I was wondering how significant of an upgrade/downgrade the 9400m GPU is from the older chipsets. I've played games on the last rev of iMac with the Radeon 2400 XT. I'm considering getting the new lower end 24-inch iMac and was wondering if anyone could give me a comparison between those two chipsets (solely for gaming, no other advanced graphics i.e. video editing or 3d work). My understanding is that the 9400m is the same as in the new macbooks/pros? Any insight, whether anecdotal or evidential, would be helpful.
Thank you very much.
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The NVIDIA integrated video is very new. It remains to be seen if it is "crappy." The users who have had the +GeForce 9400M+ for a few months in MacBooks seem to think the new integrated video is pretty decent. If Apple wanted "bargain basement," they would have kept using the Intel integrated video. Seems to me they jumped at something better as soon as it became available.
I'm not sure people want to see bargain-basement chipsets in their iMac (and integrated chipsets will always be associated, fairly or unfairly, with crapness).
Wrong... Most customers will not care if it's discreet or integrated, and not even know the difference between those terms. They will just care that it works well.
For customers who do care about such details, they need to realize that integrate video was bad before because system RAM used to be very slow compared to dedicated video RAM, especially before the switch from PowerPC to Intel CPUs. The difference in speed between video RAM and system RAM is now much less extreme. Also, NVIDIA is a company that has significantly more experience making video hardware, compared to Intel's expertise. Combine the fast system RAM used by Apple in the new Macs with NVIDIA's video know-how... I think you've got pretty decent video performance for the low-end Mac systems.

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