NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT 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 9650M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 110 nm
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 57 vs 53

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 August 2008 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 110 nm
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	57 vs 53

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 143 vs 137

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	143 vs 137

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

137

143

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	137	143
PassMark - G2D Mark	57	53
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1465
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1465

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G96	NV43 A2
Launch date	19 August 2008	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1579	1581
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	84.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Maximum VGA resolution	1920x1200
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
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	256 MB	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
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0