GeForce 9600 GTX vs 9800M GTS

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1109not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.93no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG94G92
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)27 May 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6496
Core clock speed600 MHz580 MHz
Number of transistors505 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate19.2027.84
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS0.2784 TFLOPS
Gigaflops240no data
ROPs1616
TMUs3248

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s44.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 27 May 2009
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 140 Watt

9800M GTS has 86.7% lower power consumption.

9600 GTX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9800M GTS and GeForce 9600 GTX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9800M GTS is a notebook card while GeForce 9600 GTX is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
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