NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M 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 9700M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 24% better floating-point performance: 99.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	29 July 2008 vs 13 March 2008
Floating-point performance	99.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

2x more core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 55% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 45 Watt
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 209
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 328 vs 120

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 625 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	270 vs 209
PassMark - G2D Mark	328 vs 120

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

120

328

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	209	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	120	328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1901
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1901

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	G84
Launch date	29 July 2008	13 March 2008
Place in performance rating	1374	507
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	1250 MHz
CUDA cores	32	32
Floating-point performance	99.2 gflops	80 gflops
Gigaflops	148
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	32	32
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR2?, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0