NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS and NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 85% higher texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 134

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2008 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	270 vs 134

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 335 vs 328

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	335 vs 328

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

270

134

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

328

335

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	270	134
PassMark - G2D Mark	328	335

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G84	G73
Launch date	13 March 2008	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	507	509
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1250 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	177 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2?, GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0