GeForce 9600 GS OEM vs 8700M GT SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1142not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.94no data
ArchitectureG8x (2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameNB8E-SEG94
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 September 2007 (17 years ago)29 July 2008 (16 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 cores6448
Core clock speed625 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors578 Million505 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)58 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data12.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.12 TFLOPS
ROPsno data12
TMUsno data24

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB768 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX1011.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 September 2007 29 July 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 768 MB
Chip lithography 80 nm 65 nm

8700M GT SLI has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

9600 GS OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 23.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8700M GT SLI and GeForce 9600 GS OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8700M GT SLI is a notebook card while GeForce 9600 GS OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
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