NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
9.6x more core clock speed: 990 MHz vs 103 MHz
Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 7.2 GTexel / s vs 6.88 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 48 vs 32
Around 38% better floating-point performance: 95.04 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 170 vs 131
Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2145 vs 1798
Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2145 vs 1798

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	990 MHz vs 103 MHz
Texture fill rate	7.2 GTexel / s vs 6.88 GTexel / s
Pipelines	48 vs 32
Floating-point performance	95.04 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	170 vs 131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2145 vs 1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2145 vs 1798

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 23 Watt
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 58 vs 49

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 23 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	58 vs 49

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

170

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2145

1798

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2145

1798

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	170	131
PassMark - G2D Mark	49	58
Geekbench - OpenCL	5606
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2145	1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2145	1798

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT216	G96
Launch date	10 January 2010	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1547	1548
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	990 MHz	103 MHz
CUDA cores	48	32
Floating-point performance	95.04 gflops	68.8 gflops
Gigaflops	142
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	48	32
Texture fill rate	7.2 GTexel / s	6.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMIVGASingle 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
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0
SLI
PCI-E 2.0