NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 6.88 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 12 August 2004
Texture fill rate	6.88 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

4.9x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 103 MHz
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 144 vs 131
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 59 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 103 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	144 vs 131
PassMark - G2D Mark	59 vs 58

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

131

144

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	131	144
PassMark - G2D Mark	58	59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1798

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G96	NV43 A2
Launch date	3 June 2008	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1542	1545
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	103 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	6.88 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0