NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT videocard review

GeForce 9600M GT videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 4 June 2008. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G96.

Core clock speed - 120 MHz. Texture fill rate - 8 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 80 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 314 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 23 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2, GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. 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

140

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

27823 Frames

1140 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

27823.000 Fps

1140.000 Fps

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

1679 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

1679.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	140
PassMark - G2D Mark	28
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan	1140 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan	1140.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1679 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1679.000 Fps

Games performance

1. GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)
2. Left 4 Dead (2008)
3. Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)
4. Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)
5. Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

6. World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
7. Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)
8. World of Warcraft (2005)
9. Doom 3 (2004)
10. Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

Low, 800x600	30.83
Medium, 1024x768	22.40

Left 4 Dead (2008)

Low, 640x480	148.00
High, 1024x768	76.00

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

Low, 800x600	133.20
Medium, 1024x768	46.90
High, 1280x1024	21.95

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

Medium, 1024x768	23.85
High, 1024x768	16.92

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	61.60
Medium, 1024x768	23.58
High, 1024x768	13.49

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x768	49.00
High, 1024x768	24.00

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768

133.00

World of Warcraft (2005)

Low, 800x600	250.50
Medium, 1024x768	82.60
High, 1280x1024	20.20

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	187.20
Medium, 640x480	195.55
High, 800x600	168.85
Ultra, 1024x768	123.90

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

434.90

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G96
Launch date	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1531
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	120 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	314 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0