NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
5.8x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 103 MHz
Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 billion / sec vs 6.88 GTexel / s
3x more pipelines: 96 vs 32
3.3x better floating-point performance: 230.4 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
3.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 456 vs 131
Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 94 vs 58
Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2623 vs 1798
Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2623 vs 1798

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 103 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.6 billion / sec vs 6.88 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 32
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	456 vs 131
PassMark - G2D Mark	94 vs 58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2623 vs 1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2623 vs 1798

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 23 Watt
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 900 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 23 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

456

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2623

1798

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2623

1798

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	456	131
PassMark - G2D Mark	94	58
Geekbench - OpenCL	1879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	5.099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	131.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	8.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2623	1798
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2623	1798

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G96
Launch date	5 January 2011	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1541	1542
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	103 MHz
CUDA cores	96	32
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops	68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	32
Texture fill rate	9.6 billion / sec	6.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
PCI-E 2.0