NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS videocard review

GeForce 9650M GS videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 13 March 2008. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G84.

Core clock speed - 1250 MHz. Texture fill rate - 10 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 80 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 289 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 29 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2?, GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 25.6 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

270

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

328

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	328

Games performance

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	75.30
Medium, 1024x768	27.00
High, 1024x768	15.20

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x768	35.00
High, 1024x768	21.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	165.20
Medium, 640x480	160.40
High, 800x600	146.50
Ultra, 1024x768	123.70

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G84
Launch date	13 March 2008
Place in performance rating	487
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1250 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt
Transistor count	289 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
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	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2?, GDDR3
Shared memory	0