NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS videocard review

GeForce 9600M GS videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 3 June 2008. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G96.

Core clock speed - 103 MHz. Texture fill rate - 6.88 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 68.8 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 314 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 20 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2, GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1600 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 25.6 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38534

131

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

1798 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

1798.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	131
PassMark - G2D Mark	58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1798 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1798.000 Fps

Games performance

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

Low, 800x600	118.00
Medium, 1024x768	38.89

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	62.30
Medium, 1024x768	21.11
High, 1024x768	13.43

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

453.50

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G96
Launch date	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1542
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	103 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	6.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	314 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0