NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT videocard review

GeForce 9650M GT videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 19 August 2008. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G96.

Core clock speed - 550 MHz. Texture fill rate - 8.8 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 84.8 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 65 nm. Transistors count - 314 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 23 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2, GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 256 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

137

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225 Frames

1465 Frames

GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

69225.000 Fps

1465.000 Fps

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	137
PassMark - G2D Mark	57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1465 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex	1465.000 Fps

Games performance

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	48.89
Medium, 1024x768	22.20
High, 1024x768	12.28

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x768	38.00
High, 1024x768	13.00

Doom 3 (2004)

Low, 640x480	59.70
Medium, 640x480	59.50
High, 800x600	58.05
Ultra, 1024x768	57.40

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768

469.10

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G96
Launch date	19 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1579
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	84.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	314 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution	1920x1200
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 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