NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 598 MHz vs 500 MHz
8.4x more texture fill rate: 33.5 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
21x more pipelines: 336 vs 16
20.1x better floating-point performance: 803.7 gflops vs 40 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 1526 MB vs 512 MB
14.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1745 vs 122
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 301 vs 172

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 March 2012 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	598 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.5 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	336 vs 16
Floating-point performance	803.7 gflops vs 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1526 MB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1745 vs 122
PassMark - G2D Mark	301 vs 172

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1745

122

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

301

172

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	1745	122
PassMark - G2D Mark	301	172
Geekbench - OpenCL	6316
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	588.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.916
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	52.899
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3627
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3346
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3627
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3346
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2062

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GF114	G96
Launch date	22 March 2012	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	979	982
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	598 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	336	16
Floating-point performance	803.7 gflops	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	336	16
Texture fill rate	33.5 billion / sec	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	314 million
Gigaflops		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
SLI options	2-way
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1526 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	72.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	192bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
SLI
PCI-E 2.0