NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
12.5x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 120 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Around 20% better floating-point performance: 96 gflops vs 80 gflops
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 145 vs 140
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 29 vs 28
Around 63% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2744 vs 1679
Around 63% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2744 vs 1679

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 120 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	96 gflops vs 80 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	145 vs 140
PassMark - G2D Mark	29 vs 28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2744 vs 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2744 vs 1679

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

3.2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz

Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

140

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2744

1679

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2744

1679

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	145	140
PassMark - G2D Mark	29	28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2744	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2744	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1140

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	G96
Launch date	8 January 2009	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1530	1531
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	120 MHz
CUDA cores	32	32
Floating-point performance	96 gflops	80 gflops
Gigaflops	144
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	32	32
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Single Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	16 (DDR2) / 25 (GDDR3)	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0
Power management	8.0