NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 60 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 58 vs 28
179.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1798 vs 10
179.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1798 vs 10

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 60 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	58 vs 28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1798 vs 10
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1798 vs 10

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

6.6x more core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 103 MHz
Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 billion / sec vs 6.88 GTexel / s
Around 35% better floating-point performance: 92.8 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 159 vs 131

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 103 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.8 billion / sec vs 6.88 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	92.8 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	159 vs 131

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

131

159

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1798

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1798

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
PassMark - G3D Mark	131	159
PassMark - G2D Mark	58	28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1798	10
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1798	10
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1728
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1728

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	G84
Launch date	3 June 2008	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1542	1544
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Core clock speed	103 MHz	675 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	68.8 gflops	92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	32	32
Texture fill rate	6.88 GTexel / s	10.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0
SLI