NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 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 GTS 250M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
4.9x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 103 MHz
2.3x more texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 6.88 GTexel / s
3x more pipelines: 96 vs 32
3.5x better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 554 vs 118

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 June 2009 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 103 MHz
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s vs 6.88 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 32
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	554 vs 118

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 28 Watt
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 60 vs 50

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 28 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	60 vs 50

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

554

118

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	554	118
PassMark - G2D Mark	50	60
Geekbench - OpenCL	8215
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1798

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT215	G96
Launch date	15 June 2009	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1535	1536
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	103 MHz
CUDA cores	96	32
Floating-point performance	240 gflops	68.8 gflops
Gigaflops	360
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	32
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s	6.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	727 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size	large	medium sized
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options	2-way
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management	8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI
PCI-E 2.0