NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• 2.6x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 540 MHz
• Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 8.6 billion / sec
• Around 18% better floating-point performance: 89.6 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
• Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz vs 700 MHz
• Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 172 vs 131
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1505 vs 1397
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1505 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

• Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 / 512 MB
• Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 42 vs 32

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	172 131
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	32 42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1505 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1505 1397

Compare specifications (specs)