NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 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 8300 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 87% higher texture fill rate: 6.88 GTexel / s vs 3.67 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 32 vs 8
4.7x better floating-point performance: 68.8 gflops vs 14.688 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 40 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 131 vs 115
4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1798 vs 441
4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1798 vs 441

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 17 April 2007
Texture fill rate	6.88 GTexel / s vs 3.67 GTexel / s
Pipelines	32 vs 8
Floating-point performance	68.8 gflops vs 14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 40 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	131 vs 115
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1798 vs 441
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1798 vs 441

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

4.5x more core clock speed: 459 MHz vs 103 MHz
Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	459 MHz vs 103 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 58

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

131

115

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1798

441

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1798

441

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	131	115
PassMark - G2D Mark	58	111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1798	441
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1798	441

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	G86
Launch date	3 June 2008	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1543	1544
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	103 MHz	459 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	68.8 gflops	14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	32	8
Texture fill rate	6.88 GTexel / s	3.67 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0