NVIDIA GeForce 320M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 320M and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 320M

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 210 vs 137
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 59 vs 57
Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1735 vs 1465
Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1735 vs 1465

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2010 vs 19 August 2008
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	210 vs 137
PassMark - G2D Mark	59 vs 57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1735 vs 1465
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1735 vs 1465

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 320M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

210

137

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1735

1465

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1735

1465

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 320M	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	210	137
PassMark - G2D Mark	59	57
Geekbench - OpenCL	2474
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1735	1465
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1735	1465

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 320M	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	MCP89	G96
Launch date	1 April 2010	19 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1576	1579
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	32	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Floating-point performance		84.8 gflops
Texture fill rate		8.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		1920x1200
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Shared memory	yes	0
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
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0